On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:50:32 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: > At 12:17 PM -0500 3/12/07, Mike - EMAIL IGNORED wrote: >>I am having a problem updating my timezone data. >>Here is an example. >> >># rpm -q tzdata >>tzdata-2005m-1.fc4 >># rpm -U --allfiles --force tzdata-2006g-1.fc4.src.rpm >># rpm -q tzdata >>tzdata-2005m-1.fc4 >> >>And the files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/ >>are unchanged. >> >>Thanks for your help. > > Well, naturally. You "installed" a source RPM, so it doesn't affect the > binary RPM at all. > > Are you sure you need to update the tzdata? I'd have thought that a 2005 > tzdata would be fine for the US DST issue. What do these report? > > /usr/sbin/zdump -v America/New_York | grep 2007 > /usr/sbin/zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007 > -- [...] # /usr/sbin/zdump -v America/New_York | grep 2007 America/New_York Sun Mar 11 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000 America/New_York Sun Mar 11 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400 America/New_York Sun Nov 4 05:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:59:59 2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400 America/New_York Sun Nov 4 06:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:00:00 2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000 # /usr/sbin/zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007 /etc/localtime Sun Apr 1 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Apr 1 01:59:59 2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000 /etc/localtime Sun Apr 1 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Apr 1 03:00:00 2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400 /etc/localtime Sun Oct 28 05:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28 01:59:59 2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400 /etc/localtime Sun Oct 28 06:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28 01:00:00 2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000 Odd that one looks correct, and the other looks incorrect. What do you advise? Thanks, Mike.
