Bassett, Mark wrote:
> Which is why I always symlink /etc/localtime Not only does it solve
> these issues, but it makes it very clear which timezone is selected!
But means that your time info is not available when /usr/share is not
mounted. This probably does not impact many people, but Red Hat started
using a copy back in the RHL6 days to overcome the problem.
John.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Aleksandar Milivojevic
> Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 2:45 PM
> To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: New Standard/Daylight time-change dates in rhel4u2
> butnot centos4.2?
>
> Quoting s.davison@xxxxxxxxxxxx:
>
>
>>Many thanks, that was basically the problem. It
>>wasn't Canadian time, but it was the wrong
>>/etc/localtime. I don't know where that
>>/etc/localtime came from -- it's not the same
>>as any of the files in the /usr/share/zoneinfo
>>hierarchy. But putting US/Eastern in there did
>>the trick.
>
>
> My guess is you had old version of tzdata package, that was updated to
> current
> version sometime in the past. Now, if you look which package owns
> /etc/localtime and /usr/share/zoneinfo stuff, you get:
>
> # rpm -qf /etc/localtime
> glibc-2.3.4-2.13
> # rpm -qf /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern
> tzdata-2005m-1.EL4
>
> As far as I can see, tzdata package has no pre/postinstall scripts
> associated
> with it. That would mean /etc/localtime doesn't get updated when tzdata
> is
> updated. Unless I missed something, it's probably a bug in tzdata RPM
> package.
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