TIMEZONE(4)

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | SEE ALSO | NOTES

NAME

TIMEZONE– set default system time zone and locale

SYNOPSIS

/etc/TIMEZONE /etc/default/init 

DESCRIPTION

This file sets the time zone environment variable TZ, and the locale-related environment variables LANG, LC_COLLATE, LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, LC_MONETARY, LC_NUMERIC, and LC_TIME.

/etc/TIMEZONE is a symbolic link to /etc/default/init.

The number of environments that can be set from /etc/default/init is limited to 20.

SEE ALSO

init(1M), rtc(1M), ctime(3C), environ(5)

NOTES

When changing the TZ setting on x86 systems, you must make a corresponding change to the /etc/rtc_config file to account for the new timezone setting. This can be accomplished by executing the following commands, followed by a reboot, to make the changes take effect:

# rtc -z zone-name # rtc -c

where zone-name is the same name as the TZ variable setting.

See rtc(1M) for information on the rtc command.

SunOS 5.9  Last Revised 7 Oct 2002

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