Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!achille From: achille@cernvax.UUCP (achille) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: Changing the timezone Keywords: /com/tz, timezone, Message-ID: <800@cernvax.UUCP> Date: 16 Aug 88 17:44:52 GMT References: <3d8a1969.d5b2@apollo.COM> <2249@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> Reply-To: achille@cernvax.UUCP () Organization: CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland Lines: 26 In article <2249@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> martin@medix.UUCP (Brian K. Martin, M.D.) writes: >In article <3d8a1969.d5b2@apollo.COM> oj@canyon.UUCP (Ellis Oliver Jones) writes: >>Just say $ /com/tz edt or $ /com/tz pst or whatevr, online. >>No shutdown required. > >Except the Apollo doesn't know about Hawaii Standard Time. Depending >on the season, we are either 5 or 6 hours earlier than the east coast, >or GMT-10 hours. After much trial and error, I discovered an environment >variable that can be set in the node startup file which correctly >implements Hawaii Standard Time. > >--Brian I think you are talking about the TZ variable (documented in the Domain/IX manuals), only works in Domain/IX. Also, /com/tz does not know about Hawaii but can be invoked as /com/tz gmt_offset your_preferred_TZ_name and off you go (documented in the help file). People correcting other people would have to read manuals before ! Apart from that, a real trouble for us is the fact that Domain/IX only knows about US rules for daylight saving time, so we have to play around with TZ during the time IX thinks it's DST and it is not. Sure, fixed in sr10 :-) Achille Petrilli, Cray Operations