Summary: Change Time Zone

From: Alan Kong <kkkong_at_ee.cuhk.edu.hk> Date: Mon Jun 11 2001 - 05:19:36 EDT · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Wed Mar 23 2016 - 16:24:56 EDT

Thanks to:
Jay Lessert <jayl@accelerant.net>
and many suggestions to come.

Summary:
1) Zone info of solaris 7 and solaris 8 have changed.
  Edit "/usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/src/asia":

# Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
Zone    Asia/Hong_Kong  7:36:36 -       LMT     1904 Oct 30
                       8:00    HK      HK%sT   1997 Jul  1 # return to
China
                         8:00    PRC     C%sT

Change to:

# Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
Zone    Asia/Hong_Kong  7:36:36 -       LMT     1904 Oct 30
                         8:00    HK      HK%sT

2) Edit: /etc/default/init
  Change to "TZ=Asia/Hong_Kong"

3) zic /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/src/asia and reboot.

Original Problem:

> Dear All,
> 
> COuld you please show me how to change the timezone displayed from "CST"
> to "HKT"?
> When I upgraded from Solaris 7 to Solaris 8 on our Ultra 5, I have
> selected the LOCALE to be Eastern Asia -> Hong Kong. However the time
> zone displayed was CST. The time displayed was correct.
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