# SLES 15 - Timezone WAT

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/sles-15-timezone-wat/35371>\
**Category:** SLES Configure-Administer\
**Created:** [November 11, 2020, 7:03pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/sles-15-timezone-wat/35371 "2020-11-11T19:03:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![willem.lourens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/35a633/32.png) [@willem.lourens](https://forums.suse.com/u/willem.lourens)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 7:03pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/sles-15-timezone-wat/35371/1 "2020-11-11T19:03:12Z")

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Hi  
We have SAP and HANA running on SLES 15. The timezone in SAP is set to WAT.  
 ![](https://forums.suse.com/uploads/editor/ik/8f5u4bgww04s.png)  
According to the documentation the timezone in the Application and on the Database should be the same. However there is no WAT timezone to select in SLES 15. For now I selected GMT - 1 as that match the time offset. But need confirmation that this is 100% OK,as differences in the timezone on app and server might cause extra processing?  
 ![](https://forums.suse.com/uploads/editor/05/ubstv81lpvkq.png)  
Kind Regards,

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**Author:** ![malcolmlewis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/malcolmlewis/32/11375_2.png) [@malcolmlewis](https://forums.suse.com/u/malcolmlewis)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 7:56pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/sles-15-timezone-wat/35371/2 "2020-11-11T19:56:41Z")

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@“willem.lourens” Hi and welcome to the Forum 🙂  
That should be fine, but would assume both systems are running ntp/chronyd and syncing to a time server?

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**Author:** ![willem.lourens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/35a633/32.png) [@willem.lourens](https://forums.suse.com/u/willem.lourens)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 7:41am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/sles-15-timezone-wat/35371/3 "2020-11-12T07:41:54Z")

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Hi @malcolmlewis , Thank you, and thank you for the response 😄  
Yes, we have NTP sync active.

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**Author:** ![Andreas1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d26b3c/32.png) [@Andreas1](https://forums.suse.com/u/Andreas1)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 6:49pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/sles-15-timezone-wat/35371/4 "2020-11-12T18:49:30Z")

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Please have a look in the IANA time zone database for the correct time zone settings.  
[https://iana.org/time-zones](https://www.iana.org/time-zones "https://iana.org/time-zones")  
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz\_database](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz\_database")  
[https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/546811-Gnome3-DST-problem?highlight=timezone](https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/546811-Gnome3-DST-problem?highlight=timezone "https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/546811-Gnome3-DST-problem?highlight=timezone")