[CentOS] tzdata - extra info.

Ralph Angenendt wrote:

>> This was mostly a question about why yum provided a tzdata that was for a 
>> 2006a rpm instead of the 2006g or later when I did the yum.
> 
> Again: Use the fasttrack repository for those updates. Why that wasn't
> released as a normal update from upstream is beyond my knowledge.

What is it you are missing?  On CentOS 3.x boxes I have:

# rpm -q tzdata
  tzdata-2006a-2.EL3.1

And:
zdump -v EST5EDT |grep 2007
EST5EDT  Sun Mar 11 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 EST 
isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000
EST5EDT  Sun Mar 11 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007 EDT 
isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
EST5EDT  Sun Nov  4 05:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:59:59 2007 EDT 
isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
EST5EDT  Sun Nov  4 06:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:00:00 2007 EST 
isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000

As an odd coincidence, exactly a year ago today I extracted these 
settings from a Centos 4 box and the US change was already there.

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   Les Mikesell
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