setting @TM

[Richard D. Williams]

Thanks to all who responded.

I have set TZ=PST8PDT and all is well.

Richard D. Williams


Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

>On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 12:53:57PM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>  
>
>>"Richard D. Williams" wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Red Hat Linux 8.0
>>>FP 5.0.10D4
>>>
>>>I have two applications running on a server in the Central Time Zone.
>>>One of the applications services a client in California.
>>>The system time is set to Central Time.
>>>
>>>Is there a way to adjust or set the @TM to a different timezone than the
>>>serve?
>>>      
>>>
>>*nix defines a TZ environment variable for just this purpose.  Currently,
>>it should be set as "CST6CDT" (or "CST6" if some parts of Indiana), which
>>tells the system you're in the Central timezone.  For Pacific, set it to
>>"PST8PDT", and everything on the system should show two hours earlier.
>>    
>>
>
>Coomonly, if you have a user who normally logs in from a different
>timezone, you'd set this in the user's .*profile, to override the
>default seting of it, which happens somewhere further upstream.
>
>Cheers,
>-- jra
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