Hello all,

Please help with a timezone issue.

Ok, my timezone is set to the following (EET) Eastern European Time) and Im located in Hungary.
Now, when I do a DATE -U command, it shows a GMT offset of +3. This is incorrect, because in the Summer time, its suppose to have an offset of +2.

I checked my etc/TIMEZONE directory and its currently set to
TZ= EET (since installation)


The offset SHOULD be +2 instead +3....in the Summer time.

How can I set this correctly? Please explain the details.
So in other words, I want to have Hungarian Local Time, with a GMT or UTC offset of +2...And +1 in the Winter time.

And how can I set this correctly when Daylight Savings comes again in the Fall (which should be +1) ????

Thx in advance.

What distribution and version of Linux are you using? There have been changes in timezone daylight savings/standard time dates which were incorporated in several updates to the Linux time tables. If you have not kept your Linux up-to-date then you may have discrepancies in the times. If you have not updated your Linux you should do so to incorporate the latest time tables.

Here is a wiki on how to fix time and timezones in Linux which I found using the terms "linux timezone" in Google.

http://www.wikihow.com/Change-the-Timezone-in-Linux

Its not Linux...Its Solaris 10 08/07 release. Thats why I posted this thread in the Solaris forum in the first place.

Also, is there any way I can issue a command to were I can set the UTC offset to +2 ??
All I want to do is to set the local time being Budapest, Hungary (Eastern Europe) and when issuing the date -u command, I want the UTC offset to be +2.

Please help.

Many thanks.

I think I know whats going on here.
My TZ was set to EET which is like Romania (a bit more East of Hungary)...So Hungary would be set as this below and please correct me if Im wrong.

etc/TIMEZONE
TZ=CET
CMASK=022

Or....TZ=CEST

And this is what all I had to do??

Please confirm.


Now, will this creat a UTC offset of +2 in the summer time or +1?

You can do this:
Edit /etc/TIMEZONE and change TZ to Europe/Budapest

Thanks, I will give a try.
Now, so this also means that whrn the next DST changes take effecr which would be Fall, would this automatically convert UTC offset to +1 ???

Yes, this is supposed to do.
Maybe you have to install the latest DST patch in order to use the latest changes for various countries (note the link above is for the sparc patch)

Im using Solaris 10 8/07. Does this release needs this patch at all for an X86?

And once I have the patch installation files downloaded, how can I install them? Please post the commands.

Thx.

There was no recent change in European time zones I'm aware of so installing that patch isn't mandatory in your case.

Thanks...

And in this command below, do I have to add somewhere on there Budapest??? Or...only zic europe?

cd /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/src
zic europe

Just "zic europe" is enough.
As for the patch jlliagre is right. It's not mandatory and it's only useful if you have to do with affected countries.

One problem though...

I am dual-booting with Windows and once I change the time doing the DATE HHMM.SS under Solaris, like for example 18:00 CEST, then on Windows, the clock is displayed as 19:00...

And when I change the clock under Windows to 18:00, then under Solaris, its goes behind 17:00...

Why ??

Hi...Ok, I got it working...

The issue was...Well...Its my fault for not mentioning that Im dual-booting with Windows first of all....Sorry...

OK, I did the rtc -z Europe/Budapest command in order for the RTC to realize the INTERNAL clock so Windows and Solaris wont have to play a tug of war...

All is working now...

Thx.