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When executing the date command (on CentOS), it gives me something like this:

Thu May 10 20:15:07 XST 2012

My local time zone is CEST, which was at that moment 22:15:07, so the printed time seems to be GMT.

But even with some time in Google and the man pages I was not able to see what XST means...I guess it's quite simple, so who can help?

Edit: When setting the timezone again, the output comes like that:

Fri May 11 10:02:33 XDT 2012

So, the printed time is fine - I am just curious about the meaning of XST and XDT in the output.

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  • what's in your /etc/timezone? – Marcel G May 11 '12 at 5:26
  • @MarcelG: Well, there is not /etc/timezone on the machine, should there be one? In the GUI I have the situation, that it shows the GMT time in the right upper corner, but when I click on it, it'll tell me that my timezone is CEST. – Alexander Rühl May 11 '12 at 5:31
  • I have to admit I've never used CentOS on Ubuntu this is were the timezone information is kept but after a quick search I found that CentOS uses /etc/localtime and /etc/sysconfig/clock (see for example kezhong.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/change-timezone-on-centos-5-4). Setting the timezone again might help. – Marcel G May 11 '12 at 5:39
  • @MarcelG: Ok. I did set it again, now it changed to XDT (see question). – Alexander Rühl May 11 '12 at 8:04
  • Have you tried to reinstall the tzdata package which contains timezone information? – jofel May 11 '12 at 8:33
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ST means "Standard Time", and DT "Daylight Saving Time". The X in front should be the first letter of your actual time zone - maybe X means that it is unknown.

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  • It seems like you said that X is either unknown or a special time zone defined on the given machine (which I was not aware of). – Alexander Rühl May 11 '12 at 9:16

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