Is it possible to monitor a change in the timezone for NTP/Linux servers

Hi All,

Need some help if anyone is doing the monitoring of "when there is a timezone change detected" on Linux servers. Additonally i would like to know if anything can be achieved via NTP server...

We have NPM, SAM and VMAN in place,

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thulsey

I found a simple Perl function here that may help: [Perl-beginners] how to get timezone in perl - Grokbase

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

use warnings;

use POSIX;

print strftime("%Z", localtime()), "\n";

You could pipe this output into a log file on the node, and then check to see if it changes and alert if it's not the desired output.

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thulsey

I found a simple Perl function here that may help: [Perl-beginners] how to get timezone in perl - Grokbase

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

use warnings;

use POSIX;

print strftime("%Z", localtime()), "\n";

You could pipe this output into a log file on the node, and then check to see if it changes and alert if it's not the desired output.

pratikmehta003

for local time u referring to the timezone right? Coz if the date + time is shown then detecting change of that value will be difficult.

thulsey

The function returns nothing but the timezone:

pratikmehta003

thanks a lot..