Fedora Users — Re: FC4 timezone RPM problem

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 a2005
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 2007EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000America/New_York Sun Mar 11 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400America/New_York Sun Nov 4 05:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:59:59 2007EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400America/New_York Sun Nov 4 06:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:00:00 2007EST 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 2007EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000/etc/localtime Sun Apr 1 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Apr 1 03:00:00 2007EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400/etc/localtime Sun Oct 28 05:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28 01:59:59 2007EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400/etc/localtime Sun Oct 28 06:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28 01:00:00 2007EST 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 thesystem. 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.

{^_^}