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How can I change the timezone?

April 26, 2017timezone

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How can I change the timezone?

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Updated: 05/03/02 The timezone is dtermined by reading the ‘TZ’ environment variable. This variable is set when you execute ‘set_parms timezone’. Set_parms edits the file ‘/etc/TIMEZONE,’ which exports the ‘TZ’ environment variable. When you reboot after executing set_parms, the file /etc/TIMEZONE will be read and your TZ variable set to the value you specified. The value is in the format: [:]STDoffset[DST[offset][,rule]] For example: PST8PDT for the U.S. Pacific Time Zone See the environ(5) manpage for a detailed description of the format. Note, the offset for daylight savings time is supplied by the ‘/usr/lib/tztab’ configuration file. libc functions like ctime use the ‘TZ’ variable to determine the timezone.