如何修改Solaris的时区信息

对于一些运行在Solaris上的应用，可能依赖一些时区或者时间上的设置。如果安装的时候，时区选择错误，则可以在系统运行起来之后，重新修改Solaris主机所在的时区。

主要需要修改的文件是/etc/TIMEZONE，打开看一下：

# cat /etc/TIMEZONE
#
# Copyright 1992, 1999-2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
# Use is subject to license terms.
#
#ident  "@(#)init.dfl   1.7     02/12/03 SMI"
#
# This file is /etc/default/init.  /etc/TIMEZONE is a symlink to this file.
# This file looks like a shell script, but it is not.  To maintain
# compatibility with old versions of /etc/TIMEZONE, some shell constructs
# (i.e., export commands) are allowed in this file, but are ignored.
#
# Lines of this file should be of the form VAR=value, where VAR is one of
# TZ, LANG, CMASK, or any of the LC_* environment variables.  value may
# be enclosed in double quotes (") or single quotes (').
#
TZ=US/Eastern
CMASK=022
LC_COLLATE=en_US.ISO8859-1
LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1
LC_MESSAGES=C
LC_MONETARY=en_US.ISO8859-1
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.ISO8859-1
LC_TIME=en_US.ISO8859-1

可以看到这个文件实际是一个链接，需要修改的字段是TZ，比如现在设置的是美国东部时区，我们想修改成中国所在的时区，那么应该改成PRC，再重启使之生效：

#sync; init 6;

确认修改成功，只需要简单echo一下就好了：

# echo $TZ
PRC

那么哪些时区的值是可以设置给TZ字段的呢？看一下这个路径下，就知道了~

# ls /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo
Africa      Brazil      Egypt       GB          Hongkong    Japan       MST7MDT     posixrules  Turkey      Zulu
America     Canada      Eire        GB-Eire     HST         Kwajalein   Navajo      PRC         UCT
Antarctica  CET         EST         GMT         Iceland     Libya       NZ          PST8PDT     Universal
Arctic      Chile       EST5EDT     GMT-0       Indian      MET         NZ-CHAT     ROK         US
Asia        CST6CDT     Etc         GMT+0       Iran        Mexico      Pacific     Singapore   UTC
Atlantic    Cuba        Europe      GMT0        Israel      Mideast     Poland      src         W-SU
Australia   EET         Factory     Greenwich   Jamaica     MST         Portugal    tab         WET

注： 以上配置针对于Solaris 10