Specifying A Daylight Saving Time; Setting The Xscf Time - Sun Microsystems Sun SPARC Enterprise M3000 User Manual

Specifying a Daylight Saving Time

Command operation
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1. Use the showtimezone(8) command to display the time zone.
<Example 1> Display the timezone.
XSCF> showtimezone -c tz
Asia/Tokyo
<Example 2> Displays the Daylight Saving Time information as
follows: the abbreviation of time zone is JST, the offset from GMT
is +9 hours, the name of Daylight Saving Time is JDT, Daylight
Saving Time is 1 hour ahead, and the time period is from the last
Sunday of March 2:00(JST) to the last Sunday of October 2:00(JDT).
XSCF> showtimezone -c dst -m custom
JST-9JDT,M3.5.0,M10.5.0
2. Use the settimezone(8) command to set the Daylight Saving Time
information.
<Example 1> Sets the Daylight Saving Time information as follows:
abbreviation of time zone is JST, the offset from GMT is +9 hours,
the name of Daylight Saving Time is JDT, the offset of Daylight
Saving Time from GMT is +10 hours, and the time period is from the
first Sunday of April 0:00(JST) to the first Sunday of September
0:00(JDT).
XSCF> settimezone -c adddst -b JST -o GMT-9 -d JDT -p GMT-10 -f
M4.1.0/00:00:00 -t M9.1.0/00:00:00
JST-9JDT-10,M4.1.0/00:00:00,M9.1.0/00:00:00
<Example 2> Deletes the Daylight Saving Time information of current
settings.
XSCF> settimezone -c deldst -b JST -o GMT-9
To reflect the Daylight Saving Time information which modified by -c adddst
or -c deldst option, log out and then log in again.
3. Use the showtimezone(8) command to confirm the setting.

Setting the XSCF Time

Command operation
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1. Use the showdate(8) command to display the XSCF time.
Chapter 2 Setting Up XSCF 2-47