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To answer your question, use the instructions in the second link, summarized here. This will change the system-wide default timezone for libraries and utilities that print or return the time. It will not affect the actual contents of the real-time clock in the hardware (or virtual machine host infrastructure for a VM). The rtc command is used to configure the actual time stored in the hardware. You need to worry about that if you're going to be frequently rebooting from Solaris into Windows on the same hardware and you need to make sure they both understand the time value that's stored in the hardware realtime lock chip.

In Solaris 11.2 you can use the nlsadm utility to set this.

# date Tuesday, December 15, 2015 08:54:04 PM UTC # nlsadm get-timezone timezone=UTC # nlsadm list-timezone | grep US/Pacific US/Pacific # nlsadm set-timezone US/Pacific Reading IPS package information ... Setting SMF property timezone/localtime with value: 'US/Pacific' ... Successfully set # date Tuesday, December 15, 2015 12:54:24 PM PST

You may need to install the nls-administration package using

# pkg install nls-administration

There is a man page for the nlsadm utility which is installed with the binary. Here is a link to the documentation describing the process.

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/html/E39134/gllkr.html

Under the covers, the nlsadm utility will use the svccfg commands described in an earlier answer. And under those covers there is a symlink in /etc for backwards compatibility. That's right, it's just covers all the way down. :-)

To answer your question, use the instructions in the second link, summarized here. This will change the system-wide default timezone for libraries and utilities that print or return the time. It will not affect the actual contents of the real-time clock in the hardware (or virtual machine host infrastructure for a VM). The rtc command is used to configure the actual time stored in the hardware. You need to worry about that if you're going to be frequently rebooting from Solaris into Windows on the same hardware and you need to make sure they both understand the time value that's stored in the hardware realtime lock chip.

In Solaris 11.2 you can use the nlsadm utility to set this.

# date Tuesday, December 15, 2015 08:54:04 PM UTC # nlsadm get-timezone timezone=UTC # nlsadm set-timezone US/Pacific Reading IPS package information ... Setting SMF property timezone/localtime with value: 'US/Pacific' ... Successfully set # date Tuesday, December 15, 2015 12:54:24 PM PST

You may need to install the nls-administration package using

# pkg install nls-administration

There is a man page for the nlsadm utility which is installed with the binary. Here is a link to the documentation describing the process.

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/html/E39134/gllkr.html

Under the covers, the nlsadm utility will use the svccfg commands described in an earlier answer. And under those covers there is a symlink in /etc for backwards compatibility. That's right, it's just covers all the way down. :-)

To answer your question, use the instructions in the second link, summarized here. This will change the system-wide default timezone for libraries and utilities that print or return the time. It will not affect the actual contents of the real-time clock in the hardware (or virtual machine host infrastructure for a VM). The rtc command is used to configure the actual time stored in the hardware. You need to worry about that if you're going to be frequently rebooting from Solaris into Windows on the same hardware and you need to make sure they both understand the time value that's stored in the hardware realtime lock chip.

In Solaris 11.2 you can use the nlsadm utility to set this.

# date Tuesday, December 15, 2015 08:54:04 PM UTC # nlsadm get-timezone timezone=UTC # nlsadm list-timezone | grep US/Pacific US/Pacific # nlsadm set-timezone US/Pacific Reading IPS package information ... Setting SMF property timezone/localtime with value: 'US/Pacific' ... Successfully set # date Tuesday, December 15, 2015 12:54:24 PM PST

You may need to install the nls-administration package using

# pkg install nls-administration

There is a man page for the nlsadm utility which is installed with the binary. Here is a link to the documentation describing the process.

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/html/E39134/gllkr.html

Under the covers, the nlsadm utility will use the svccfg commands described in an earlier answer. And under those covers there is a symlink in /etc for backwards compatibility. That's right, it's just covers all the way down. :-)

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Chris Quenelle
Chris Quenelle
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To answer your question, use the instructions in the second link, summarized here. This will change the system-wide default timezone for libraries and utilities that print or return the time. It will not affect the actual contents of the real-time clock in the hardware (or virtual machine host infrastructure for a VM). The rtc command is used to configure the actual time stored in the hardware. You need to worry about that if you're going to be frequently rebooting from Solaris into Windows on the same hardware and you need to make sure they both understand the time value that's stored in the hardware realtime lock chip.

In Solaris 11.2 you can use the nlsadm utility to set this.

# date Tuesday, December 15, 2015 08:54:04 PM UTC # nlsadm get-timezone timezone=UTC # nlsadm set-timezone US/Pacific Reading IPS package information ... Setting SMF property timezone/localtime with value: 'US/Pacific' ... Successfully set # date Tuesday, December 15, 2015 12:54:24 PM PST

You may need to install the nls-administration package using

# pkg install nls-administration

There is a man page for the nlsadm utility which is installed with the binary. Here is a link to the documentation describing the process.

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/html/E39134/gllkr.html

Under the covers, the nlsadm utility will use the svccfg commands described in an earlier answer. And under those covers there is a symlink in /etc for backwards compatibility. That's right, it's just covers all the way down. :-)