s.davison@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>>From a login on a machine with rhel4u2
>I can execute the following commands and get
>the indicated output:
>
>date --date="Mar 25 15:00:00 UTC 2006"
> Sat Mar 25 10:00:00 EST 2006
>
>date --date="Mar 25 15:00:00 UTC 2007"
> Sun Mar 25 11:00:00 EDT 2007
>
>As you can see, the output differs for 2006 and 2007. That
>indicates that rhel4u2 includes changes required by the
>"Energy Policy Act of 2005," which mandates new dates for
>transition between Standard Time and Daylight Saving Time
>starting in 2007.
>
>If I do the same thing on a machine with
>"CentOS release 4.2 (Final)", I get the following output:
>
>date --date="Mar 25 15:00:00 UTC 2006"
> Sat Mar 25 10:00:00 EST 2006
>
>date --date="Mar 25 15:00:00 UTC 2007"
> Sun Mar 25 10:00:00 EST 2007
>
>So it looks as if CentOS4.2 does not yet have that change.
>
>Is that correct? Or is there perhaps some installation
>parameter that I have missed in installing CentOS4.2?
>
>Thanks for any info.
>
>Stowe Davison
>
>
Works fine in the US Central time zone:
[rj@mavis ~]$ date --date="Mar 25 15:00:00 UTC 2006"
Sat Mar 25 09:00:00 CST 2006
[rj@mavis ~]$ date --date="Mar 25 15:00:00 UTC 2007"
Sun Mar 25 10:00:00 CDT 2007
Do you have tzdata-2005m-1.EL4 installed?
[rj@mavis ~]$ rpm -qi tzdata
Name : tzdata Relocations: (not
relocatable)
Version : 2005m Vendor: CentOS
Release : 1.EL4 Build Date: Fri 07 Oct
2005 06:03:09 AM CDT
Install Date: Wed 19 Oct 2005 11:56:56 AM CDT Build Host:
x8664-build.home.local
Group : System Environment/Base Source RPM:
tzdata-2005m-1.EL4.src.rpm
Size : 655994 License: GPL
Signature : DSA/SHA1, Fri 07 Oct 2005 08:48:38 AM CDT, Key ID
a53d0bab443e1821
Packager : Johnny Hughes <johnny@xxxxxxxxxx>
Summary : Timezone data
Description :
This package contains data files with rules for various timezones around
the world.
[rj@mavis
~]$
