Hi all,
I have been using Red Hat for a very long time and run CentOS 4 on some of my production servers. One of the things that
has bugged me for a long time is the fact in the Time Zone configuration there is not a selection for UTC or GMT.
As a work around I have been linking the /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC
which works, but when Yum auto updates to a new version it resets the timezone back to EST. When this happens
it messes up my timings in the crontab.
Is there a reason UTC is missing a timezone selection in RHEL4? It is an option in RHEL5.
Is there a better way to set the system to UTC then the /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC
work around, and its problems??
Thanks,
Mike
On 09/08/2009 11:55 PM, nate wrote:
Michael Dross wrote:
Is there a better way to set the system to UTC then the /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC
Try /etc/sysconfig/clock as well as /etc/localtime
There is a UTC option in the clock file as well.
right ... edit /etc/sysconfig/clock and set the value:
ZONE="UTC" UTC=true
With those settings it will keep your time at UTC through updates.
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Johnny Hughes -
Michael Dross -
nate