Lee ...
You can change the timezone on a per-process basis with the
environment variable TZ. You can change it system-wide (within the
context of one Linux image) by changing the file /etc/localtime.
Often, /etc/localtime is a symbolic link to one of the files under
/usr/share/zoneinfo. Examples:
TZ=GMT ; export TZ
date
-or-
ln -sf ../usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT /etc/localtime
date
Linux internal clock is set to (it thinks) GMT
and need not match the hardware clock. I run NTP
to synch time in Linux with outside time references and it is
usually several seconds off from the zSeries clock. No problem.
-- R;
