Garl Grigsby wrote:
Matthew,
Just in case you never got this done, here is what I developed as a
procedure for updating older Redhat 7.3 and 9.0 systems. So far, this
has worked on all the systems I've tried.
Garl
Steps to update Time Zone data on older (redhat) systems.
NOTE: newer systems (like eglnx04) should be updated using up2date/yum
1. cd /tmp
2. mkdir tzupdate
3. wget 'ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tz[cd]*.tar.gz'
4. gzip -dc tzd*.tar.gz | tar xvf -
5. gzip -dc tzc*.tar.gz | tar xvf -
6. zic -d zoneinfo northamerica
7. tar -cvf /usr/share/zoneinfo_backup.tar /usr/share/zoneinfo/
1. This is just a backup in case something bad happens. This
can be deleted when all is finished.
8. cp -Rf zoneinfo/ /usr/share/zoneinfo/
9. rm /etc/localtime
10. ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/PST8PDT /etc/localtime
11. zdump -v /usr/share/zoneinfo/PST8PDT | grep 2007
12. zdump -v /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles | grep 2007
13. zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007
Make sure all three commands above report something like this with Mar
11 and Nov 4 as the dates:
/usr/share/zoneinfo/PST8PDT Sun Mar 11 09:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11
01:59:59 2007 PST isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800
/usr/share/zoneinfo/PST8PDT Sun Mar 11 10:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11
03:00:00 2007 PDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-25200
/usr/share/zoneinfo/PST8PDT Sun Nov 4 08:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4
01:59:59 2007 PDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-25200
/usr/share/zoneinfo/PST8PDT Sun Nov 4 09:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4
01:00:00 2007 PST isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800
If they match, you're done.
Thanks Garl...
This looks very very similar to what I tried the other day and I got my
machine's time all fubar... the 'w' command would show a time 8 hour sin
the future, system clock showed current time... messing around with them
just made it worse... luckily I had backed up /etc/locatime and could
recover..
Followed the above verbatim and have the same problem.... the only thing
w/ correct lines are /America/Los_Angeles
Again, glad I had a backup....
Matthew S. Jarvis
IT Manager
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www.bikefriday.com
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