On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 03:18:33PM -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote: > I'm still running Core 4 and the new DST is coming at me like a freight > train. I got the latest src for Core 5: tzdata-2006p-1 and built it and > installed it so I now have tzdata-2006-1 on my system. > > % > rpm -q tzdata-2006p > tzdata-2006p-1 > > The problem is: > > % > date -d '27 March' > Tue Mar 27 00:00:00 EST 2007 > > Note that it says EST instead of EDT. I have no TZ variable set. > > Can someone *please* tell what I have to do to fix this? FC4 glibc didn't have /usr/sbin/tzdata-update (it was only introduced in FC5+ and later backported to RHEL4 and RHEL3). So, after you update tzdata package, if the changes are in your default timezone, you need to return system-config-date or manually update /etc/localtime. Jakub
