Hey,

I have just installed an NTP server on our network and I want to
synchronise the time on all my SCO servers with it. It all works well
except that the SCO servers are an hour behind.

This is obviously a daylight savings problem. We have always adjusted
for daylight savings manually. I did a bit of research and found out
about /etc/TIMEZONE. I commented out the existing timezone and fixed
it up to do the daylight saving conversion itself:

# TZ='NZST-12'
TZ='NZST-12:00:00NZDT-13:00:00,M10.1.0,M3.3.0'
export TZ

Now to get that to take effect, I have to run ". /etc/TIMEZONE". Now
the date and time are correct, but only for the current session of the
current user.

Can someone please tell me how I make this a system wide change?


Later

David Kirk

David Kirk wrote (on Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 12:20:59PM -0800):
> about /etc/TIMEZONE. I commented out the existing timezone and fixed
> it up to do the daylight saving conversion itself:
>
> # TZ='NZST-12'
> TZ='NZST-12:00:00NZDT-13:00:00,M10.1.0,M3.3.0'
> export TZ
>
> Now to get that to take effect, I have to run ". /etc/TIMEZONE". Now
> the date and time are correct, but only for the current session of the
> current user.
>
> Can someone please tell me how I make this a system wide change?
>
>
> Later
>
> David Kirk

Put ". /etc/TIMEZONE" in /etc/profile. That lets it run when any user logs in.

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Nachman Yaakov Ziskind typed (on Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 03:59:00PM -0500):
| David Kirk wrote (on Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 12:20:59PM -0800):
| > about /etc/TIMEZONE. I commented out the existing timezone and fixed
| > it up to do the daylight saving conversion itself:
| >
| > # TZ='NZST-12'
| > TZ='NZST-12:00:00NZDT-13:00:00,M10.1.0,M3.3.0'
| > export TZ
| >
| > Now to get that to take effect, I have to run ". /etc/TIMEZONE". Now
| > the date and time are correct, but only for the current session of the
| > current user.
| >
| > Can someone please tell me how I make this a system wide change?
| >
|
| Put ". /etc/TIMEZONE" in /etc/profile. That lets it run when any user logs in.

Overkill and needless.

Just reboot, since bcheckrc runs TIMEZONE.


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JP

Thanks Guys.

I will try that out.


Later

David Kirk

ps. please excuse the multiple posts.

"Jean-Pierre Radley" <jpr@jpr.com> wrote in message
news:20040111220307.GF18439@jpradley.jpr.com...
> Nachman Yaakov Ziskind typed (on Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 03:59:00PM -0500):
> | David Kirk wrote (on Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 12:20:59PM -0800):
> | > about /etc/TIMEZONE. I commented out the existing timezone and fixed
> | > it up to do the daylight saving conversion itself:
> | >
> | > # TZ='NZST-12'
> | > TZ='NZST-12:00:00NZDT-13:00:00,M10.1.0,M3.3.0'
> | > export TZ
> | >
> | > Now to get that to take effect, I have to run ". /etc/TIMEZONE". Now
> | > the date and time are correct, but only for the current session of the
> | > current user.
> | >
> | > Can someone please tell me how I make this a system wide change?
> | >
> |
> | Put ". /etc/TIMEZONE" in /etc/profile. That lets it run when any user
logs in.
>
> Overkill and needless.
>
> Just reboot, since bcheckrc runs TIMEZONE.
>
>
> --
> JP

> > | Put ". /etc/TIMEZONE" in /etc/profile. That lets it run when any user
> logs in.

That works.

> >
> > Overkill and needless.
> >
> > Just reboot, since bcheckrc runs TIMEZONE.

So does that.

Thanks again.


Later

David Kirk