[CentOS] New Standard/Daylight time-change dates in rhel4u2 but not centos4.2?

Mon Nov 7 20:00:09 UTC 2005
s.davison at computer.org <s.davison at computer.org>

>-----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