I thought that "copying over" strange too and tried to reproduce it on a FC8 box in here, just by changing the link and got the same weird results.
If I use GMT+3 zone file, I got the clock showing 3 hours behind GMT and if I use GMT-3 zone file, I got the clock showing 3 hours ahead GMT. The same happened with a Ubuntu 8.04 box: r...@box:~# date Tue Apr 28 15:53:19 BRT 2009 BRT is my localtime, which is GMT-3. Below are the subsequent commands used: r...@box:~# ln -svf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT-3 /etc/localtime `/etc/localtime' -> `/usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT-3' r...@box:~# date Tue Apr 28 21:53:48 GMT-3 2009 r...@box:~# ln -svf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT+3 /etc/localtime `/etc/localtime' -> `/usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT+3' r...@box:~# date Tue Apr 28 15:53:57 GMT+3 2009 r...@box:~# ln -svf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Sao_Paulo /etc/localtime `/etc/localtime' -> `/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Sao_Paulo' r...@box:~# date Tue Apr 28 15:54:21 BRT 2009 r...@box:~# A simple zdump <timezone file> will show you the time as in the timezone. Ex.: for tz in /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/*; do zdump $tz;done It looks like all the Etc/GMT* are the opposite of the signal somehow. - MM On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Scott Lawrence <[email protected]>wrote: > On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 14:16 +0000, Cristi Starasciuc wrote: > > Hi, > > > > While working on: http://track.sipfoundry.org/browse/XX-5565 > > (Timezones are not applied properly) I came across a strange behavior > > in Linux timezones settings: > > > > When I select non geographical tz things are looking quite bizzare: > > > > 1. time is now 15 08, TZ is Europe/Bucharest > > date shows: Tue Apr 28 15:XX:XX EEST 2009 > > GMT is now 12:XX (Bucharest is now at GMT+3) > > Sipxecs clock shows 15:xx - correct > > > > 2. I copy /usr/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT over /etc/localtime > > date shows: Tue Apr 28 12:XX:XX GMT 2009 - correct > > When you say "copy xxx over /etc/localtime" do you mean that you > actually us a file copy operation? > > /etc/localtime is usually a symbolic link - if you copy into it, you're > overwriting the file it points to, which will mess things up pretty > thoroughly... > > _______________________________________________ > sipx-dev mailing list > [email protected] > List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-dev > Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-dev >
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