Hi
I thought the UNIX command date is universal and so I have been using
date +%z to get the numberic timezone offset (e.g. -0500)
however on HP-UX, this is not returning expected results; on my machine it returns the name of the time zone (e.g. EST) not numbers.
does anyone know how to get the number timezone offset on HP-UX?
thanks for your help
Is the TZ variable defined? That overrides the default file settings for timezones.
Check
/etc/timezone
it should be the setting for the current system timezone.
In HPUX the
/usr/lib/tztab
file has all of the settings for timezones. Check man tztab to learn how to set those to have offsets. I have not done HP-UX for loong time.
thanks but my script will be running across various HPUX systems, I don't think I have the ability to set the timezone per each system.
is there no universal numeric timezone offset in HPUX?