[CentOS] yum and yumex change system time

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Richard, thank you for your response.


On 06/23/2015 02:51 PM, Richard wrote:
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> I agree, so my questions are:
> 
>    - what is your TZ?

u.s.a. 'central time zone' - currently on 'daylight savings time'.

>    - what does "[/bin/]date" show?

  [geo at boxen ~]$ date
  Tue Jun 23 14:54:42 CDT 2015

>    - what does your hardware clock: "/sbin/hwclock --show"  report?
>       [need to be root to use that command]

  [geo at boxen ~]$ sudo hwclock --show
  [sudo] password for geo:
  Tue 23 Jun 2015 02:55:40 PM CDT  -0.899861 seconds

>    - is your /etc/localtime file a standalone file or a symlink
>        to /usr/share/zoneinfo/... ?

currently it is a copy of file from /usr/share/zoneinfo/ on advice
from a post to this list when i had problem getting correct time to
show in clock in panel.

>       - if a symlink, to what file?

see above answer.

>       - what is the timestamp on the localtime (or what it's
>           symlinked to) file?

   2015-06-18 20:50

this file was copied several months ago so time stamp shows file has
been updated.

>    - what does "zdump -v /etc/localtime" return ? i.e., is it for
>       the correct TZ?

  [geo at boxen ~]$ zdump -v /etc/localtime
  /etc/localtime  -9223372036854775808 = NULL
  /etc/localtime  -9223372036854689408 = NULL
  /etc/localtime  Sun Nov 18 17:59:59 1883 UTC = Sun Nov 18 12:09:23
1883 LMT isdst=0 gmtoff=-21036

<one hell of a long list snipped>

  /etc/localtime  Sun Nov  1 06:59:59 2499 UTC = Sun Nov  1 01:59:59
2499 CDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-18000
  /etc/localtime  Sun Nov  1 07:00:00 2499 UTC = Sun Nov  1 01:00:00
2499 CST isdst=0 gmtoff=-21600
  /etc/localtime  9223372036854689407 = NULL
  /etc/localtime  9223372036854775807 = NULL

  [geo at boxen ~]$ zdump -v CDT /etc/localtime
  CDT             -9223372036854775808 = NULL
  CDT             -9223372036854689408 = NULL
  CDT             9223372036854689407 = NULL
  CDT             9223372036854775807 = NULL
  /etc/localtime  -9223372036854775808 = NULL
  /etc/localtime  -9223372036854689408 = NULL
  /etc/localtime  Sun Nov 18 17:59:59 1883 UTC = Sun Nov 18 12:09:23
1883 LMT isdst=0 gmtoff=-21036
  /etc/localtime  Sun Nov 18 18:00:00 1883 UTC = Sun Nov 18 12:00:00
1883 CST isdst=0 gmtoff=-21600
  /etc/localtime  Sun Mar 31 07:59:59 1918 UTC = Sun Mar 31 01:59:59
1918 CST isdst=0 gmtoff=-21600

<similar hell of a long list like above>

  /etc/localtime  Sun Nov  1 06:59:59 2499 UTC = Sun Nov  1 01:59:59
2499 CDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-18000
  /etc/localtime  Sun Nov  1 07:00:00 2499 UTC = Sun Nov  1 01:00:00
2499 CST isdst=0 gmtoff=-21600
  /etc/localtime  9223372036854689407 = NULL
  /etc/localtime  9223372036854775807 = NULL

  [geo at boxen ~]$ zdump -v CDT
  CDT  -9223372036854775808 = NULL
  CDT  -9223372036854689408 = NULL
  CDT  9223372036854689407 = NULL
  CDT  9223372036854775807 = NULL

so, yes. i am in 'central time zone' observing 'daylight savings time'.


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