Steve Campbell wrote:
I read a few days back on the list where the tzdata rpm was to take care of the new DST rules. I run CentOS 3 servers, and did a 'yum update tzdata' , but received a 2006a update of the rpm.
Is this proper? It sure didn't fix anything.
Thanks
Steve Campbell
You can use the "zdump" to verify the DST rules. Substitute the right timezone in the command below:
$ /usr/sbin/zdump -v "US/Pacific" -c 2006,2008 US/Pacific Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901 UTC = Fri Dec 13 12:45:52 1901 PST isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800 US/Pacific Sat Dec 14 20:45:52 1901 UTC = Sat Dec 14 12:45:52 1901 PST isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800 US/Pacific Sun Apr 2 09:59:59 2006 UTC = Sun Apr 2 01:59:59 2006 PST isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800 US/Pacific Sun Apr 2 10:00:00 2006 UTC = Sun Apr 2 03:00:00 2006 PDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-25200 US/Pacific Sun Oct 29 08:59:59 2006 UTC = Sun Oct 29 01:59:59 2006 PDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-25200 US/Pacific Sun Oct 29 09:00:00 2006 UTC = Sun Oct 29 01:00:00 2006 PST isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800 US/Pacific Sun Mar 11 09:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 PST isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800 US/Pacific Sun Mar 11 10:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007 PDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-25200 US/Pacific Sun Nov 4 08:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:59:59 2007 PDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-25200 US/Pacific Sun Nov 4 09:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:00:00 2007 PST isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800 US/Pacific Mon Jan 18 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Sun Jan 17 19:14:07 2038 PST isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800 US/Pacific Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Mon Jan 18 19:14:07 2038 PST isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800
You can see DST takes effect on March 11 this year, so the rules are updated. This output was from a CentOS 4 system, but I'd imagine the results should be the same on CentOS 3.
-Greg