This is a message that showed up in "info.sun-managers"; the only time zone I could find for India in the "tzdata96b" file was # India # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Calcutta 5:53:28 - LMT 1880 5:53 - CMT 1941 Oct # Calcutta Mean Time 6:30 - BMT 1942 May 15 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 15 5:30 - IST which is 5 1/2 hours from GMT, not 5 hours from GMT.... From: jerome@india.ti.com (Jerome Alphonse) Newsgroups: info.sun-managers Subject: date problems between Solaris and SunOS Date: 27 Jan 1996 20:06:01 -0600 Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway Message-ID: <199601270204.HAA02126@supernova.india.ti.com> Hello Gurus Our timezone is GMT+5. We have setup our machines in this timezone So in SunOS machines , if I give date command ,the output is Sat Jan 27 06:45:57 GMT+0500 1996 Which seems to be okay. In Solaris machines, if I give date command, the output is (though we have set it up as GMT+5,during installation) Sat Jan 27 06:45:01 GMT 1996 Becoz' of which we are not able to run certain Solaris applications which look into SUNOS or HP-UX machines for licensing as license gives error saying that time gap is more than it could handle (probably those wretched 5 hours). Becoz of this time stamp of the files created across NFS( between SUNOS and Solaris), is also crazy In Solaris machines -rw-rw-r-- 1 aravind 0 Jan 26 20:47 123 -rw-rw-r-- 1 aravind 0 Jan 26 20:47 234 In Solaris machines ,same files(across NFS) -rw-rw-r-- 1 aravind 0 Jan 27 06:47 123 -rw-rw-r-- 1 aravind 0 Jan 27 06:47 234 And also due to this time zone problem , I suspect there are some NFS mount problems which I posted in this forum a day or two before. Regards Jerome \\|// \\|// @@@@ ($$) (@@) (!!) ----o00--()--00o------o00--()--o00--------o00-()-00o------ Jerome Alphonse Email: jerome@india.ti.com Systems Engineer Phone: 011-91-80-2264235/9 Texas Instruments Fax : 011-91-80-2267024 Bangalore 560052 India URL : http://www.india.ti.com/~jerome/ ===========================================================