On 06/23/2015 04:47 PM, g wrote: > > Richard, thank you for your response. > > > On 06/23/2015 02:51 PM, Richard wrote: > <<>> > >> 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'. > > Edit the file: /etc/sysconfig/clock make sure to set: ZONE="America/Chicago" then copy /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago to /etc/localtime Run the time tool and make sure that "System clock uses UTC" is NOT checked -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20150623/19f07207/attachment-0004.sig>