[CentOS] Time Change: Centos-immune?
Florin Andrei
florin at andrei.myip.org
Wed Mar 7 18:22:43 UTC 2007
Stephen Harris wrote:
>
> Any process started before you update /etc/localtime (and ensure that
> got updated correctly; it may not have been) may need to be restarted
> if it uses zoneinfo information. Two obvious ones are syslog and cron.
> The safest solution is to reboot.
OK. So let me see if I get this right:
# ls -l /etc/localtime
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1017 May 5 2006 /etc/localtime
# rpm -qf /etc/localtime
glibc-2.3.4-2.19
The system also has tzdata-2007c
So /etc/localtime hasn't been touched in a long time, but tzdata has
been updated recently. That means, all daemons that haven't been
restarted since /etc/localtime has been updated, need a restart. Right?
By the way, the system passes the empirical US DST '07 test (there's a 1
hour difference between the two outputs - if they were identical that
would be a problem):
# date --date="Mar 25 15:00:00 UTC 2006"
Sat Mar 25 07:00:00 PST 2006
# date --date="Mar 25 15:00:00 UTC 2007"
Sun Mar 25 08:00:00 PDT 2007
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Florin Andrei
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