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                 |  | UGU: Unix Guru Universe - Unix Tip #4460- May 28, 2025
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SOLARIS CHANGING SEASONS 
During a session, sometimes
 we have a need to change the
 system time for our session
 only.  We have used it to
 simulate time based testing.
 
 export TZ=ESThhEDT
 
 The EST set your time to Eastern
 Standard Time and EDT is Eastern
 Daylight Time.
 
 hh is the number of hours you
 wish to change.
 
 Example:  Currently the system
 date is  Tue Jun 19 13:38:03 EDT 2001
 
 and you wish to set it to
 yesterday at the same time.
 You would substitute a positive
 29 for hh.
 
 export TZ=EST29EDT
 
 Now the shell time is:
 Mon Jun 18 13:38:50 EDT 2001
 
 WHY 29 and not 24?  The main
 UNIX clock is set from GMT not
 EST therefore you have to add
 5 hours to your backward
 calculations to get the same
 exact time since EST is
 GMT - 5 hours.
 
 Use negitive numbers to set
 the clock into the future.
 
 Also if you need to set the
 minutes and seconds  it is
 hh:mm:ss.  These are all the
 number of hours, minutes and
 seconds from GMT that you wish
 to set.
 
 This is for Solaris 2.6, your
 mileage may vary.
 
 
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