Natarj, --- On Wed, 7/7/10, Nataraj <incoming-centos at rjl.com> wrote: > From: Nataraj <incoming-centos at rjl.com> > Subject: [CentOS] how to properly change the timezone > To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> > Date: Wednesday, July 7, 2010, 5:58 PM > Hi, > > I have a Centos 5.5 server with no GUI > installed. I have several times > changed the timezone by copying the correct file to > /etc/localtime, > however something keeps changing it back. I'm not > sure if this is a yum > update or what. Without installing the graphical > tools, how can I > update the timezone in such a way that the /etc/localtime > file won't > keep getting clobbered. At the time you did the copy, there likely was an existing symlink from /etc/localtime to another timezone. Then your copy was relegated back to the symlink on reboot? Something like that. Before you do a copy like that, check for a symlink and delete it first. -- Mark