Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!ucsd!nosc!humu!uhccux!bmartin From: bmartin@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Brian Martin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: Changing the timezone Keywords: /com/tz, timezone, Message-ID: <2249@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> Date: 14 Aug 88 10:18:22 GMT References: <3d8a1969.d5b2@apollo.COM> Reply-To: martin@medix.UUCP (Brian K. Martin, M.D.) Organization: University of Hawaii Lines: 26 In article <3d8a1969.d5b2@apollo.COM> oj@canyon.UUCP (Ellis Oliver Jones) writes: >Somebody (I think either mcdonald@loki or maybe Jim Rees, wrote) >>The timezone is a little trickier. It's stored in a completely separate >>way. Unfortunately, I think you still need to shut down to change the >>timezone, even at sr10. > >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 ----- Brian K. Martin, M.D. 1103 9th Ave., Suite 203 Honolulu, Hawai`i 96816-2403 Voice (808) 733-2003 Fax (808) 733-2011 ARPA: uhccux!medix!martin@nosc.MIL UUCP: {uunet,dcdwest,ucbvax,ihnp4}!ucsd!nosc!uhccux!medix!martin