On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:21:21PM -0800, James G. Sack (jim) wrote: > > zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007 > > Seems like a good tip, JO. > > My workstation, FC5 which I yum-update regularly still has not set the > correct tzdata -- the above command yields 4 lines, 2 each at Apr 1 and > Oct 28. I guess it should be Mar 11 and Nov 11(?). > > Ahh, waitaminute, my /etc/localtime is a file last changed in August > 2006. Whereas the tzdata package has a correctly updated PST8DST file in > /usr/share/zoneinfo. > > Rether than fixing it manually, I go into System > Administration > Date > & Time (aka: system-config-date), and make the little mousey point to > LA. Click ok. It resets localtime fine. Out of curiosity, I go back to > what I had before (Tijuana) -- that makes it wrong, again .. Ohhhh. So I > reset to LA, even though that's a hundred miles further away. Oh, well.
There's some issue with, IIRC, glibc-common, that would let the system automagically replace /etc/localtime after the tzdata update. The magic never happened on any of my supported systems. In every case, I've had to manually copy the tz file over. -- *********************************************************************** * John Oliver http://www.john-oliver.net/ * * * *********************************************************************** -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
