[CentOS] Time Change: Centos-immune?

[Les Mikesell]

Florin Andrei wrote:
> Forget for a moment the fact that one should not override an RPM package 
> with files from a tarball :-) but look at this article:
> 
> http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS6300294422.html
> 
> It seems like the author assumes that /etc/localtime is already a 
> symlink. Otherwise what would be the point in recommending to update 
> tzdata but don't do anything about /etc/localtime?
> 
> So probably the article (posted on Slashdot, no less) is wrong from the 
> perspective of a Red Hat / CentOS user on two counts:
> - the tzdata update method is bad
> - /etc/localtime is not a symlink on RHEL/CentOS so the method is 
> incomplete


A quick check for your default setting should be:
date -d "March 12"
and see if the time zone displayed is the dst version.  Of course if you 
have a TZ= setting in your invironment, that zone file will be used 
instead of the default localtime.

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  Les Mikesell
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