Setting your time zone

Warning

The local time zone set on all Discoverer HPC login and compute nodes is Europe/Sofia.

Note

The supported time zone catalogue is located under /usr/share/zoneinfo. It is maintained by the package tzdata.

In your profile (bash)

In case you need to change the time zone under your Linux account on Discoverer HPC, browse the catalogue under /usr/share/zoneinfo:

ls /usr/share/zoneinfo

then assign the zone name to the shell environment variable TZ (to make the changes permanent, do that assignment in your ~/.basrc file):

export TZ=Europe/Zurich

Here Europe/Zurich is given as an example.

In case you want to switch to UTC:

export TZ=UTC

In your Slurm batch scripts

Important

Changing time zone does not affect the execution time of your Slurm jobs. It can only provide time zone specific time to the jobs, if they need it (which is a very rare case).

See the exaplanations for setting the time zone for your bash profile given above. If you do not want to change the time zone in your bash profile, then specify the export declaration within the particular Slurm batch script:

export TZ=UTC

For you cron jobs

Important

By default, the execution time specified for cron job is relative to the time zone set at a system level (Europe/Sofia).

If you want to set your cron job execution time relative to another time zone, different than the default one (EST/EEST), check first if that zone name is listed under /usr/share/zoneinfo, and if it is available there, set its name a value to the variable CRON_TZ in the crontab description, right before the job declaration:

CRON_TZ=UTC
00 01 * * * /discofs/username/cron/job1.bash