Natarj,
--- On Wed, 7/7/10, Nataraj incoming-centos@rjl.com wrote:
From: Nataraj incoming-centos@rjl.com Subject: [CentOS] how to properly change the timezone To: "CentOS mailing list" centos@centos.org Date: Wednesday, July 7, 2010, 5:58 PM Hi,
I have a Centos 5.5 server with no GUI installed. I have several times changed the timezone by copying the correct file to /etc/localtime, however something keeps changing it back. I'm not sure if this is a yum update or what. Without installing the graphical tools, how can I update the timezone in such a way that the /etc/localtime file won't keep getting clobbered.
At the time you did the copy, there likely was an existing symlink from /etc/localtime to another timezone. Then your copy was relegated back to the symlink on reboot? Something like that.
Before you do a copy like that, check for a symlink and delete it first.