[CentOS] Problem with timezone configuration

Thu Feb 24 22:56:43 UTC 2011
yonatan pingle <yonatan.pingle at gmail.com>

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 1:41 AM, John Nash <centos at nikomachus.info> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem configuring the timezone on a CentOS 5.5 server.
> I would like the timezone to be Europe/Paris.
>
> I have followed the steps described here:
> http://www.wikihow.com/Change-the-Timezone-in-Linux
>
> I think I have changed the appropriate configuration files ( /etc/localtime,
> /etc/sysconfig/clock ), but the output of the ‘date’ command still indicates
> the timezone is EST.
>
>
> [root at xxx ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
> CentOS release 5.5 (Final)
> [root at s15370074 ~]# ls -l /etc/localtime
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Feb 19 18:31 /etc/localtime ->
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Paris
> [root at xxx ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/clock
> ZONE="Europe/Paris"
> UTC=true
> ARC=false
> [root at xxx ~]# echo $TZ
>
> [root at xxx ~]#
> [root at xxx ~]# date
> Sun Feb 20 18:01:28 EST 2011
> [root at xxx ~]# rdate -s time.mit.edu
> [root at xxx ~]# hwclock –systohc
> [root at xxx ~]# date
> Sun Feb 20 18:03:34 EST 2011
>
>
> Note that I have even completely rebooted the server, with no effect.
>
> Am I missing something important ?
>
> Thank you in advance for your suggestions !
>
>
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why work hard?
yum install system-config-date

system-config-date




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Yonatan Pingle
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