>-----Original Message----- >From: Aleksandar Milivojevic [mailto:alex at milivojevic.org] >Sent: Monday, November 7, 2005 03:32 PM >To: centos at centos.org >Subject: Re: [CentOS] New Standard/Daylight time-change dates in rhel4u2 but not centos4.2? > >Quoting Robert <kerplop at sbcglobal.net>: > >> Works fine in the US Central time zone: > >Maybe his CentOS machine is setup to use *Canadian* time zone file (in >his case, >it was Eastern). As a quick test, I'd suggest doing: > >$ diff /etc/localtime /usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/Eastern >$ diff /etc/localtime /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern > >(or "Central", if local time zone is standard central time). > >If he's on Canadian time, just copy the appropriate file from US subdirectory >over /etc/localtime to get back to US time. Many thanks, that was basically the problem. It wasn't Canadian time, but it was the wrong /etc/localtime. I don't know where that /etc/localtime came from -- it's not the same as any of the files in the /usr/share/zoneinfo hierarchy. But putting US/Eastern in there did the trick. Stowe Davison