Where are you seeing Mountain time used? Each user can set their own timezone, so having your userid display Mountain time doesn't mean that the machine is running that way. The best way for the machine itself to run would be to use UTC, which is expected by other operating systems as well, such as zOS or zVM....
---- Robert P. Nix internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mayo Clinic phone: 507-284-0844 RO-CE-8-857 page: 507-270-1182 200 First St. SW Rochester, MN 55905 ---- "Codito, Ergo Sum" "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theory and practice are different." > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ranga Nathan > Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 1:39 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Setting timezone - not working for us (SLES8) > > I want to set the clock to PST/PDT (Pacific Standard Time - Daylight > Saving) even though our mainframe is in Colorado. But the clock is stuck > at mountain time! > > Using YaST I set the time zone to Pacific Standard Time (I also tried the > Global/PST-PDT) but the time is stuck at Mountain Time. Somehow SLES8 > knows that the mainframe is physically located in Colorado! > > I tried setting the clock to UTC as well as 'local'. > > Checked the /etc/sysconfig/clock, which shows... > > # > # Set to "-u" if your system clock is set to UTC, and to "--localtime" > # if your clock runs that way. > # > HWCLOCK="-u" > > # > # Timezone (e.g. CET) > # (this will set /usr/lib/zoneinfo/localtime) > # > TIMEZONE="PST8PDT" > DEFAULT_TIMEZONE="US/Pacific" > __________________________________________ > Ranga Nathan / CSG > Systems Programmer - Specialist; Technical Services; > BAX Global Inc. Irvine-California > Tel: 714-442-7591 Fax: 714-442-2840 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
