Richard, thank you for your response.
On 06/23/2015 02:51 PM, Richard wrote:
<<>>
> I agree, so my questions are:
>
> - what is your TZ?
u.s.a. 'central time zone' - currently on 'daylight savings time'.
> - what does "[/bin/]date" show?
[geo@boxen ~]$ date
Tue Jun 23 14:54:42 CDT 2015
> - what does your hardware clock: "/sbin/hwclock --show" report?
> [need to be root to use that command]
[geo@boxen ~]$ sudo hwclock --show
[sudo] password for geo:
Tue 23 Jun 2015 02:55:40 PM CDT -0.899861 seconds
> - is your /etc/localtime file a standalone file or a symlink
> to /usr/share/zoneinfo/... ?
currently it is a copy of file from /usr/share/zoneinfo/ on advice
from a post to this list when i had problem getting correct time to
show in clock in panel.
> - if a symlink, to what file?
see above answer.
> - what is the timestamp on the localtime (or what it's
> symlinked to) file?
2015-06-18 20:50
this file was copied several months ago so time stamp shows file has
been updated.
> - what does "zdump -v /etc/localtime" return ? i.e., is it for
> the correct TZ?
[geo@boxen ~]$ zdump -v /etc/localtime
/etc/localtime -9223372036854775808 = NULL
/etc/localtime -9223372036854689408 = NULL
/etc/localtime Sun Nov 18 17:59:59 1883 UTC = Sun Nov 18 12:09:23
1883 LMT isdst=0 gmtoff=-21036
<one hell of a long list snipped>
/etc/localtime Sun Nov 1 06:59:59 2499 UTC = Sun Nov 1 01:59:59
2499 CDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-18000
/etc/localtime Sun Nov 1 07:00:00 2499 UTC = Sun Nov 1 01:00:00
2499 CST isdst=0 gmtoff=-21600
/etc/localtime 9223372036854689407 = NULL
/etc/localtime 9223372036854775807 = NULL
[geo@boxen ~]$ zdump -v CDT /etc/localtime
CDT -9223372036854775808 = NULL
CDT -9223372036854689408 = NULL
CDT 9223372036854689407 = NULL
CDT 9223372036854775807 = NULL
/etc/localtime -9223372036854775808 = NULL
/etc/localtime -9223372036854689408 = NULL
/etc/localtime Sun Nov 18 17:59:59 1883 UTC = Sun Nov 18 12:09:23
1883 LMT isdst=0 gmtoff=-21036
/etc/localtime Sun Nov 18 18:00:00 1883 UTC = Sun Nov 18 12:00:00
1883 CST isdst=0 gmtoff=-21600
/etc/localtime Sun Mar 31 07:59:59 1918 UTC = Sun Mar 31 01:59:59
1918 CST isdst=0 gmtoff=-21600
<similar hell of a long list like above>
/etc/localtime Sun Nov 1 06:59:59 2499 UTC = Sun Nov 1 01:59:59
2499 CDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-18000
/etc/localtime Sun Nov 1 07:00:00 2499 UTC = Sun Nov 1 01:00:00
2499 CST isdst=0 gmtoff=-21600
/etc/localtime 9223372036854689407 = NULL
/etc/localtime 9223372036854775807 = NULL
[geo@boxen ~]$ zdump -v CDT
CDT -9223372036854775808 = NULL
CDT -9223372036854689408 = NULL
CDT 9223372036854689407 = NULL
CDT 9223372036854775807 = NULL
so, yes. i am in 'central time zone' observing 'daylight savings time'.
--
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