Florin Andrei wrote: > Forget for a moment the fact that one should not override an RPM package > with files from a tarball :-) but look at this article: > > http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS6300294422.html > > It seems like the author assumes that /etc/localtime is already a > symlink. Otherwise what would be the point in recommending to update > tzdata but don't do anything about /etc/localtime? > > So probably the article (posted on Slashdot, no less) is wrong from the > perspective of a Red Hat / CentOS user on two counts: > - the tzdata update method is bad > - /etc/localtime is not a symlink on RHEL/CentOS so the method is > incomplete A quick check for your default setting should be: date -d "March 12" and see if the time zone displayed is the dst version. Of course if you have a TZ= setting in your invironment, that zone file will be used instead of the default localtime. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com