On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 04:29 +0000, Tim wrote: > The behaving PC: > [...] > The non-behaving PC: > [...] > I can't see any difference betwen them. Exactly my point. The tzdata package is fine. Problem is, it doesn't get used under certain circumstances. > Not sure what you're alluding to with the "RH9 FC4" bit? I was trying to say that I see this issue on my RH9 and FC4 machines, plus in fact, RH7 boxes as well. > How do you read that TZ variable? I tried something like echo $TZ, on > both PCs, but it just prints a null string. If TZ is set it has precedence. Normally (in Linux) everything relies on the default in /etc/localtime, and the TZ env var is only used by users that happen to login from different time zones. Or for testing (i.e. when I want to know what time it is in N.Y. I say "TZ=US/Eastern date". > Looking at the install dates for the tzdata RPM file, they *were* both > within a few days of each other. Although I just re-installed the > tzdata file on the bad PC yesterday, it still has a much older date for > that file than the good PC. There is a surprisingly large number of updates to tzdata, just look at the package's changelog. Although most people are rarely affected by them I'm surprised that the issue hasn't come up earlier. > Both my PCs: > ll /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Adelaide > -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 785 Jan 9 20:16 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Adelaide > > So *that* file, at least, seems to have been installed properly. Yep, tzdata updates are prompt and correct. > And I've just manually replaced /etc/localtime with a copy of the > Adelaide file from /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/, and my PC is now > serving time correctly (without the stripey suit with arrows on it). The tzdata post-install script should have done that for you. The necessary information (default time zone) is in /etc/sysconfig/clock. A quick glance at the initscripts seems to indicate that /etc/localtime never ever gets changed once written by the OS installer, or when you change the default time zone. I wonder what you did to the PC that didn't have the problem. Did you change the time zone setting on it after 7-Sep-2005, causing a correct zone file to be copied over /etc/localtime? Cheers Steffen.
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