In some application environments, it is important that application server components use the same time zone. You can use the administrative console to ensure that your application components use the correct time zone.
Verify that extended National Language Support
(NLS) is installed on your i5/OS® server. If extended NLS support is not already
installed, install it by selecting option 21 when you install the base operating
system (5769-SS1).
Determine the scope at which you want to set the time zone value. You can set the time zone value such that is applies for an entire cell, for an entire node, or only for a specific server.
Remember that time zone IDs should include an offset and, in almost all cases, a daylight saving time zone name for consistent results. For example, specify EST5EDT for Eastern Standard Time, Daylight Savings Time.
When
the East African Time Zone (EAT) is specified as your time zone setting, the
HP-UX operating system Java™ virtual machine (JVM) uses Greenwich
Mean Time (GMT). Therefore, log file time stamps are based on GMT instead
of EAT. The situation might also causes problems in server federation if
you attempt to synchronize with servers that are running on an operating system
whose JVM correctly handles the EAT.
If you need to
use East African Time Zone as the time zone setting for a specific function,
instead of using the following procedure, add the -Duser.timezone=EAT parameter
to the appropriate Java command. For example, to have an application server
use EAT as its time zone setting, add the -Duser.timezone=EAT parameter to
the startServer command.
You can specify the Unix System Services (USS)
TZ variable as a WebSphere® variable to change your time zone setting.
To add the user.timezone Java virtual machine
(JVM) custom property to the configuration settings of a specific application
server:
To change the time zone setting for a single
application server:
Complete one or more of the following actions to set appropriate time zone values for your environment.
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