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Time setting on Solaris 10

Hi all,

Any idea please how to:

-Change Time format from 24h format to 12h format (AM and PM)

-Turn off DST: Daylight Save Time

on a Solaris10 server

Thanks in advance

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How do you display the time ?

You cannot turn off DST, only governments can do that

however you can easily switch to a timezone that has no daylight saving time, eg

Code:

export TZ=GMT
date

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