Can't change the time zone to daylight savings time on the SC. For example, PDT (Pacific), MDT (Mountain), CDT (Central), or EDT (Eastern) daylight time zones.

This is a feature of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Although the setdate command does not allow "Daylight" options, such as PDT, MDT, CDT, or EDT, the Daylight/Standard is automatically determined when the timezone (-t option in the setdate command) is entered.

For example:

sc0:SC> setdate -t est

Wed Apr 25 08:04:16 EDT 2001 <-- note EDT

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Note that although "est" was specified in the setdate command, the results are displayed in "EDT".

To disable daylight savings time completely, specify the timezone as an explicit offset from GMT.

For example:

sc0:SC> setdate -t gmt-5

Tue Apr 24 10:00:26 GMT-05:00 2001

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Author: Rick Holmes/John Cecere