[SOLVED] Different date shown for regular user and root user

tuxtutorials · 07-21-2010, 09:46 AM

Hello guys I am currently different dates between two users. When I am a regular user I see a different time stamp for the date command and when logged in as root I see a different time. See below:

[someuser@webserver ~]$ date
Wed Jul 21 14:38:02 UTC 2010
[someuser@webserver ~]$ su -
Password:
[root@webserver ~]# date
Wed Jul 21 09:38:10 CDT 2010

Could this be a permissions issue? I don't think this could be related to the .profile or .bashrc but a little stumped.

Thanks for any help.

tredegar · 07-21-2010, 09:55 AM

Has someuser set their TZ environment variable?
echo $TZ

GrapefruiTgirl · 07-21-2010, 09:57 AM

Definitely go with what Tredegar wrote -- further: maybe one time is in UTC (GMT) while the other is some timezone that is 5 hrs different from UTC.

EDIT -- Oop, it looks like exactly that: One is in UTC, and the other is CDT.

djsmiley2k · 07-21-2010, 10:04 AM

And http://www.linuxsa.org.au/tips/time.html

for some hints on fixing it

tuxtutorials · 07-21-2010, 11:25 PM

Thank you very much guys for the tips. I will take a look at the $TZ variable. Never even knew this existed.

tuxtutorials · 07-22-2010, 09:54 AM

Issue solved! I set the TZ variable: "export TZ=US/Mountain" and it solved my difference in time. I will add to my .bash_profile. Thank you to all responders.

Jaswanth · 11-27-2013, 08:33 AM

Hi,I have the same problem in one of my server all the normal users (not 1 user) showing the different time zone and the root user have the different time zone. in this case you suggest to change the TZ in all the normal users bash profile ?