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IRIS 3010 System Administration
2. The offset in hours of the time zone from Greenwich Mean Time.
3. A three-character abbreviation for the time zone when in daylight
savings time. If daylight savings time is not used, this field should
be omitted.
The IRIS 3010 is shipped with the time zone set for Pacific Standard Time:
PST8PDT
The file TZ in the host distribution contains a sample time zone file. After you
edit it, to transfer it to the IRIS 3010 disk, execute:
iftp w TZ /etc/TZ
Automatic Date Setting
By default, the IRIS 3010 prompts the user to check the date each time it is
booted. If an executable file /etc/rc.getdate is found, the user is not prompted,
and the result of its execution is used in place of what the user would have
typed to the prompt:
Enter the correct date (mmddhhmm[yy][.ss]):
A sample version of this file named rc.getdate is included in the host
distribution. It is a shell script that gets the date from an IRIS workstation
designated to be the network date server. To use it, edit it and change “host”
to be the name of the date server machine. Then execute:
iftp w rc.getdate /etc/rc.getdate
irsh chmod a+w /etc/rc.getdate
To disable the automatic date setting, remove /etc/rc.getdate :
irsh rm /etc/rc.getdate