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Operating Systems Solaris Daylight Savings Time Quirk
# 1  
Old 03-14-2007
Daylight Savings Time Quirk

I am running a SUN E450 on solaris (5.7). I have applied the DST patch and the system time is correct. However when users login the get the time wrong (+4 hours) (I am in EDT Zone). Does anyone know where a system wide variable for this could be set. (Root user gets the right time)

Frank
# 2  
Old 03-14-2007
Check /etc/TIMEZONE, check environment with env|grep TZ for users and root (compare them). Sounds like users are getting GMT. Also, just to be sure, the server is suppose to be in Eastern time zone?
# 3  
Old 03-15-2007
results - help needed

Here is what happens:

> env | grep TZ
TZ=US/Eastern
> date
Thu Mar 15 13:22:34 US/Eastern 2007
> su
Password:
# env | grep TZ
TZ=US/Eastern
# date
Thu Mar 15 09:23:04 EDT 2007

The second date and time are correct.

Users are getting gmt -8 instead of gmt -4 (double).

Frank
# 4  
Old 03-15-2007
fixed it -

It was a problem in the /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo directory , users did not have the correct permissions to read and execute the files.
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