[LUNI] DST changes :: a how to for Linux boxes

[Mike Scott]

That was the case on my system as well.

I did the following:

[root at prideth root]# cd /etc
[root at prideth etc]# mv localtime localtime.20070308
[root at prideth etc]# ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago localtime
[root at prideth etc]# ls -l localtime
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           35 Mar  8 10:40 localtime ->
/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago

Now it appears to give the correct zdump info:

[root at prideth etc]# zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007
/etc/localtime  Sun Mar 11 07:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007
CST isdst=0 gmtoff=-21600
/etc/localtime  Sun Mar 11 08:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007
CDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-18000
/etc/localtime  Sun Nov  4 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:59:59 2007
CDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-18000
/etc/localtime  Sun Nov  4 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:00:00 2007
CST isdst=0 gmtoff=-21600

Thanks for the tip.  Here's hoping we have an "uneventful" weekend!

- Mike Scott


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: [LUNI] DST changes :: a how to for Linux boxes
> From: Trev Peterson <trev at advanced-reality.com>
> Date: Thu, March 08, 2007 7:41 am
> To: Linux Users Of Northern Illinois - Technical Discussion
> <luni at luni.org>
> 
> On my gentoo system my /etc/localtime is NOT a link.  It looks like they
> copied /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago to /etc/localtime.
> If /etc/localtime is a link make sure it points to the correct zoneinfo
> file.  If it is a file you probably want to copy over one of the new
> files you downloaded.
> 
> 	Trev