Summary: Time Difference

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Hi Everyone,

Here is my original post.

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I am having a slight problem with my solaris boxes and my sgi boxes..
>
> It seems when I nfs mount a solaris disk onto a sgi box, and create / edit
> the files. The time stamp is wrong.
>
> For example on my sgi box:
>
> #date
> Wed Aug 26 14:26:13 PDT 1998
>
> #cd /"solaris nfs mounted disk"
> #touch file1
> #ls -l file1
> -rw-r--r-- 1 shujun lce 0 Aug 26 11:44 file1
>
> I check the time on the solaris box and it is the same as the time on sgi
> box.
>
> Now when I do the same thing to a local disk on the sgi box, the times
> come out correct.
>
> Anyone have any ideas on this one?
>
> Thanks
> Chris
>

In summary, the SGI systems did not have the correct timezone set.
What I did was go into the file /etc/TIMEZONE on the SGI boxes and
set it to Easter Time.

TZ=EST5EDT

After that I rebooted the SGI system and everything seemed to work fine.

Thanks to all who replied

Shankar Bora
Bill Crane
Mark Sherman

Thanks Again
Chris

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