From: "Mark Haney" <mhaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Mike - EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:50:32 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
At 12:17 PM -0500 3/12/07, Mike - EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
I am having a problem updating my timezone data.
Here is an example.
# rpm -q tzdata
tzdata-2005m-1.fc4
# rpm -U --allfiles --force tzdata-2006g-1.fc4.src.rpm
# rpm -q tzdata
tzdata-2005m-1.fc4
And the files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/
are unchanged.
Thanks for your help.
Well, naturally. You "installed" a source RPM, so it doesn't affect the
binary RPM at all.
Are you sure you need to update the tzdata? I'd have thought that a
2005
tzdata would be fine for the US DST issue. What do these report?
/usr/sbin/zdump -v America/New_York | grep 2007
/usr/sbin/zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007
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# /usr/sbin/zdump -v America/New_York | grep 2007
America/New_York Sun Mar 11 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007
EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000
America/New_York Sun Mar 11 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007
EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
America/New_York Sun Nov 4 05:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:59:59 2007
EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
America/New_York Sun Nov 4 06:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:00:00 2007
EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000
# /usr/sbin/zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007
/etc/localtime Sun Apr 1 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Apr 1 01:59:59 2007
EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000
/etc/localtime Sun Apr 1 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Apr 1 03:00:00 2007
EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
/etc/localtime Sun Oct 28 05:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28 01:59:59 2007
EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
/etc/localtime Sun Oct 28 06:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28 01:00:00 2007
EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000
Odd that one looks correct, and the other looks
incorrect. What do you advise?
Thanks,
Mike.
No, it's not really odd, since it's /etc/localtime that is used by the
system. I generally just symlink /etc/localtime to the right timezone
(/usr/share/zoneinfo in FC?) and it should be fine.
For reasons of insanity or whatever FC4 does not have the /etc/localtime
file symlinked. <sigh> I suppose that does make sense if /usr mounts
well after /etc.
{^_^}
