Matthew Miller wrote:
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 08:53:37AM -0500, Jerry Geis wrote:
I have a couple questions... I am in Indiana and our time zone is changing. I used to choose America/Indiana/Indianapolis as the zone and we are changing to Eastern. Question 1) Is there a command line only way to change my timezone?
You shouldn't need to do a thing. The tzdata-2006a package contains updated information for the Indiana timezone.
You will have to update /etc/localtime somehow if you have the old zoneinfo file. /etc/localtime is not an alias to the zoneinfo files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/... so an update of the tzdata file will not automatically update /etc/localtime to the newer one. It has to be copied from /usr/share/zoneinfo by default.
I suspect that there will be a bunch of systems that have the wrong time because they incorrectly might assume that the yum update of tzdata will update /etc/localtime.