Time Difference

2007-12-25 11:11:00

Hi Everyone,

Here is my original post.

> Hi Everyone,

>

> I am having a slight problem with my solaris boxes and my sgi boxes..

>

> It seems when I nfs mount a solaris disk onto a sgi box, and create / edit

> the files. The time stamp is wrong.

>

> For example on my sgi box:

>

> #date

> Wed Aug 26 14:26:13 PDT 1998

>

> #cd /"solaris nfs mounted disk"

> #touch file1

> #ls -l file1

> -rw-r--r-- 1 shujun lce 0 Aug 26 11:44 file1

>

> I check the time on the solaris box and it is the same as the time on sgi

> box.

>

> Now when I do the same thing to a local disk on the sgi box, the times

> come out correct.

>

> Anyone have any ideas on this one?

>

> Thanks

> Chris

>

In summary, the SGI systems did not have the correct timezone set.

What I did was go into the file /etc/TIMEZONE on the SGI boxes and

set it to Easter Time.

TZ=EST5EDT

After that I rebooted the SGI system and everything seemed to work fine.

Thanks to all who replied

Shankar Bora

Bill Crane

Mark Sherman

Thanks Again

Chris


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