Remote box keeps reverting the localtime to Eastern (America/New_York).
cd /etc rm localtime && ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC localtime
fixes it - but it seems to revert from time to time, I presume from yum updates (or possibly an init script ??)
In /etc/sysconfig there is a config file for it. I'd rather not manually edit it, it looks simple enough, but I'd rather use the tool if there is one.
system-config-date wants to pull in ~ 20MB of stuff I don't want that looks like it is needed for a gui config tool, but yum can't find a system-config-date-tui alternative.
Is there a text UI / console alternative, and what it is called?
If not, where is the format for /etc/sysconfig/clock specified?
Install is a xen image (originally CentOS 5.0), so selecting the desired local time at install wasn't an option.
Right now it says:
ZONE="America/New_York" UTC=false ARC=false
Would changing ZONE to
ZONE="UTC"
be enough to keep my desired UTC localtime?
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 10:57 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote:
...where is the format for /etc/sysconfig/clock specified?
/usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 10:57 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote:
...where is the format for /etc/sysconfig/clock specified?
/usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
Ah crap. It's a xen but since the hardware clock doesn't appear to be UTC then I guess I have to leave that the way it is because I can't alter the hardware clock.
I suppose I have to set the time zone on a per user basis, bashrc then.
I'll have to file a complaint and ask that they use utc for hardware clock on their xen hosts.
Thanks.
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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams -
Michael A. Peters