UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Tru64 (4.0D)

How to change the time zone setting for the system?

Sanjay

Read man page for TIMEZONE and timezone.

You can also change the TZ used within the current shell by exporting TZ.

Hi peter,

I ran timezone as root and selected my location.
But when i see date it still shows the previous timezone. Do I need to reboot the box?

Regards,
Sanjay

Shouldn't need to..... do an 'env' and see what your timezone is stating.

Try - as any user
date (this will show current date/time and timezone
export TZ=GMT (this will change to GMT)
date ( will show new timezone in GMT)

Changing the system TZ...(in the /etc/default/init file for my system SunOS 5.6) should make the new timezone be set. Users will probably have to exit and signon but you won't have to reboot box.

You may have a TZ setting in the users profile.....this would cause it to differ from the system one...check the .profile file inthe users home directory.

A few things to try anyway.

Hi Peter,

Yes, I want to change the system timezone. There is no TZ parameter set in the root profile.
The file /etc/default/init doesn't exist for Tru64.

Sanjay

Do you have man pages for TIMEZONE and timezone....for your setup? they should tell you where you can find the TZ variable setting for the system.

/etc/timezone...or /etc/TIMEZONE...might be somewhere to look....?