Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!iconsys!caeco!jose!pedro!hays
From: hays@pedro.UUCP (Hays)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Changing the timezone
Keywords: /com/tz, timezone,
Message-ID: <595@pedro.UUCP>
Date: 7 Aug 88 03:03:52 GMT
References: <3d8a1969.d5b2@apollo.COM>
Organization: Bitsko's Bar & Grill, Public Access, Salt Lake City
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In article <3d8a1969.d5b2@apollo.COM>, oj@apollo.COM (oj) writes: 
> Somebody (I think either mcdonald@loki or maybe Jim Rees, wrote) 
> >The timezone is a little trickier.  It's stored in a completely separate 
> >way.  Unfortunately, I think you still need to shut down to change the 
> >timezone, even at sr10. 
> 
> Just say   $ /com/tz edt    or $ /com/tz pst  or whatevr, online. 
> No shutdown required. 


Shut down is required for Unix because of the locality of the data, however 
the command does the change <you probably could get by with DM exit and go> 
to the underlying system clock.  Aegis environment users will get instant 
update without system shutdown.