Johnny Hughes wrote:

On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 08:53 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote:

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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? I dont have access to X to run system-config-time. Doing a "system-config-time --help" or "system-config-time -h" did not give any information.

Question 2) If the server is setup for NTP I presume I still have to change the time zone. Since Indiana-East is going away are the NTP time servers smart enough to know that Indiana-East is now just Eastern? Basically - do I have to change anything on my machines or does NTP just do it for me?

I just do this kind of stuff manually ...

delete the file /etc/localtime

copy the correct file from /usr/share/zoneinfo to be /etc/localtime

I'm sure there is a tool too ... anybody know of one?

system-config-time ?

Matthew Miller wrote:

On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 08:53:37AM -0500, Jerry Geis wrote:

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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.

Andrew Howard spake the following on 3/28/2006 10:28 AM:

Jerry Geis <geisj@...> writes:

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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? I dont have access to X to run system-config-time. Doing a "system-config-time --help" or "system-config-time -h" did not give any information.

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Thanks,

Jerry

Purdue University has a great HOWTO on this topic that allowed me to update all of the computer in my lab: https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECN/Resources/KnowledgeBase/Docs/200601281008...

Hope it helps!

Go Boilermakers!!!!