Specifying A Time Zone - Sun Microsystems Sun SPARC Enterprise M3000 User Manual

Setting Time and Date (Continued)
TABLE 2-7
Item Description
Prefer Specifies/cancels "prefer" to an NTP server
for XSCF network.
If prefer is specified, the NTP server
specified first by setntp (8) command has
priority over the others.
Stratum Specifies a stratum service for XSCF.
value
You can specify an integer from 1 to 15.
Reset time Resets the time subtraction between the
subtraction XSCF and each domain, which is stored in
XSCF.
As a result, the time of each domain will be
set to the same time as the XSCF after
startup.
Display time Displays the time subtraction between the
subtraction XSCF and each domain.

Specifying a Time Zone

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1. Use the showtimezone(8) command to display the time zone.
XSCF> showtimezone -c tz
America/Chicago
2. Use the settimezone(8) command to set the system time. The platadm
privilege is required.
<Example 1> Display the timezone list.
XSCF> settimezone -c settz -a
Africa/Abidjan
Africa/Accra
:
<Example 2> Set the timezone.
XSCF> settimezone -c settz -s Asia/Tokyo
Asia/Tokyo
The set time zone takes effect after executing the command.
3. Use the showtimezone(8) command to confirm the setting.
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Command operation
Shell Command Remarks
The default is prefer
setntp
specified.
The default stratum value
setntp
is 5.
The settings can be enabled
resetdateoffset
when all of the domains are
powered off.
showdateoffset