Re: changing the timezone on a live system

Rodrick Brown wrote:

Anyone know how to change the timezone settings on a live system w/o rebooting?
Anything I could possibly force through mdb etc..

Thanks.


Even if it's possible, I suspect it would be much easier to reboot.

The timezone is set in the TZ environment variable for each process. As far as I know, there is no way to reset those environment variables without stopping and restarting every process.

You may be able to solve your problem by stopping and restarting a few processes where the timezone really matters.
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