date on VIO server

[fbergenh]

One of our clients has 2 VIO servers.

The first VIO server has the correct date and time

$ chdate
Mon Oct  3 14:24:06 GMT+02:00 2011

but the other one is completly off:

$ chdate
Fri Mar 23 08:27:39 GMT+01:00 2007

Is it possible to correct this by setting the right date and time via the chdate command on a running VIO server or should I do this in another way?

Thanks in advance.
Frank

[Michael]

I use the command setclock to update the clock. This uses GMT/CUT time to update the clock. So, the dates should only appear different if the TZ variable is different.

How to use?

setclock host_with_correct_time

But of course, you can use chdate, or ntp as well.

[fbergenh]

Hi Michael,

When I look back at my question, I see now that I wasn't very clear on what I wanted to know 

The real question was: can I set the correct time without any consequences or are there things on a vio server that will have troubles with the time change.

For example: a time change with a running database isn't a good idea.

 

[Michael]

You can change the time of the VIOS at any time - this should not have any affect on an application (as generally applications do not know they are in a virtual environment).
The VIOS concept of time is local to the VIO partition.