system time

MiCr0

for some reason our server thinks it should be on MET time.
i would like it to be GMT

ideas?
i know this is easy - but all brain function has died today

MiCr0

system:solaris8 running on sparc

MiCr0

bash-2.03# cat /etc/TIMEZONE
# @(#)init.dfl 1.5 99/05/26
#
# This file is /etc/default/init. /etc/TIMEZONE is a symlink to this file.
# This file looks like a shell script, but it is not. To maintain
# compatibility with old versions of /etc/TIMEZONE, some shell constructs
# (i.e., export commands) are allowed in this file, but are ignored.
#
# Lines of this file should be of the form VAR=value, where VAR is one of
# TZ, LANG, CMASK, or any of the LC_* environment variables.
#
TZ=GMT
CMASK=022
LC_COLLATE=en_US.ISO8859-1
LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1
LC_MESSAGES=C
LC_MONETARY=en_US.ISO8859-1
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.ISO8859-1
LC_TIME=en_US.ISO8859-1

bash-2.03# date
Thu Nov 15 14:08:45 MET 2001

Trojan

# Lines of this file should be of the form VAR=value, where VAR is one of
# TZ, LANG, CMASK, or any of the LC_* environment variables.
#
TZ=GB-Eire
CMASK=022
LC_COLLATE=en_IE.ISO8859-1
LC_CTYPE=en_IE.ISO8859-1
LC_MESSAGES=C
LC_MONETARY=en_IE.ISO8859-1
LC_NUMERIC=en_IE.ISO8859-1
LC_TIME=en_IE.ISO8859-1

# date
Thursday November 15 19:32:35 GMT 2001

# ls -l /etc/TIMEZONE
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Jul 17 11:58 /etc/TIMEZONE -> ./default/init

moist

Originally posted by MiCr0


TZ=GMT

Thu Nov 15 14:08:45 MET 2001

Your hardly overriding that in your shell or something ?

fred (~) $ echo $TZ
Eire
fred (~) $ date
Sun Nov 18 03:46:58 GMT 2001
fred (~) $ TZ=EST
fred (~) $ date
Sat Nov 17 22:47:08 EST 2001

flamegrill

"export TZ=GMT"
just stick that in ur .profile

aswell as "set TZ=GMT in /etc/TIMEZONE". when ur server reboots the system timezone will become GMT.

MiCr0

server reboot????
this is a unix system here
i'll give them a shot
also is there any way to do this with out a reboot
this system can't go down