Hi guys,
just to check if u guys encounter this funny problem.

in 1 of my machine, i changed the timezone to Hongkong, ie : TZ=Hongkong
and when i do a date, it reflects <date> <time> HKT <year>

so far soo good...but on my second machine, i do the same thing,
TZ=Honkong
But date shows <date><time>CST <year>

anyway to change the date format to show HKT in my second machine ?

Is the variable TZ exported on your second host ?

try, on a single line:
TZ=Hongkong date
or (with ksh or bash):
export TZ=Hongkong
date

hi jlliagre,
yeah...
on the first machine..i export it..it works..
but on the second, i export it...it doesn't..
first machine :

#TZ=Hongkong; export TZ
#date
<date> <time> HKT <year>

2nd machine:

#TZ=Hongkong; export TZ
#date
<date><time> CST <year>

Compare the output of the command:
truss -t open date
on both machines, that may give you a clue, here is what I got:

$ truss -t open date
open("/var/ld/ld.config", O_RDONLY) Err#2 ENOENT
open("/lib/libc.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/lib/libdl.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US.ISO8859-1/en_US.ISO8859-1.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US.ISO8859-15/en_US.ISO8859-15.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/Hongkong", O_RDONLY) = 3
Wed Jul 21 14:44:14 HKT 2004

hmm...ok...will try it..
thanks..
so tat means if it's reading from the .//zoneinfo/Hongkong file, the date should display HKT..
am i right to say tat ?

Correct, zdump -v Hongkong gives you more information about the zoneinfo file content.

cool..
thanks...
side topic...how on earth do u know soo much abt solaris jlliagre? !


hope i could get more help from you in the future bro...^_^

Well, I started being addicted with Unix in 1984 (TNIX on a Tektronix 8560):
16 bit LSI 11/23 running at a couple of Mhz, 256 KB RAM, Unix version 7, 20 MBytes hard disk, no networking, no graphics, no vi, the only editor was ed, but, at that time, all this was really cool in front of other O/S, specially the C compiler :-)

I never stopped playing with its descendance since ...

tat's 10 solid years of UNIX experience....super cool~
*kowtow to Master..*

comparing...i only started Solaris 1/2 a yr ago...sighs...
thanks again for your help....
just a little more update on my previous problem...
there was nothing wrong with the SUNWloc package. just realise is diff release of solaris 8. the earlier version got this "bug", which display some eastern Asia country time zone as CST. Sun has since verify tat. unfortunately, i can't find any patch for tat...so the next best thing to do is upgrade the whole OS.

Hope to discuss with u more abt Unix/Solaris in here more often~

J.J

oops, I mistyped 1984, so it's actually 20 years of experience ...

Concerning the S8 bug, I guess you can overcome it by telling the system directly what is the time zone shift to GMT like this:

export TZ=HKT-7

20 years....
super super cool~!

ok..note taken...

but it's wat it display tat's troubling my customer. this server is actually to be deploy in hongkong, so he wans it to be display <date> <time> HKT <year> just to be "satisfied" with himself.

anyway, he has agreed to purchase S9 as an upgrade, so i'm doing the upgrade for him now...