Tim: >> 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). Steffen Kluge: > The tzdata post-install script should have done that for you. The > necessary information (default time zone) is in /etc/sysconfig/clock. Yes, I'd checked that file, too. It had the same information in both PCs. > 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? No, they've both been set up with the right timezone since the beginning, and that's before September 7th. About the only difference I can see, and haven't tested yet, is that the well-behaving PC has permissive SELinux settings and the one that stuffed it has enforcing. Perhaps it was preventing a change during the tzdata update? -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
