FYI: /etc/localtime and changing to summer time
Mary Ellen Foster
M.E.Foster at ed.ac.uk
Sun Mar 28 08:26:18 UTC 2004
If you, like me, are in the part of the world that changed to daylight
saving time overnight last night (Europe, at least; US and Canada are next
week), and your computer didn't make the change automatically, here's one
possible explanation and fix.
Check the permission on /etc/localtime -- it should be -rw-r--r--. Due to a
bug in the Redhat time-configuration applet, it may instead be -rw------,
in which case the time zone rules can't take effect in any account other
than root.
To resolve this, do "chmod a+r /etc/localtime" as root, and you should get
the correct timezone. The bugzilla report on this problem is
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109803, and it looks
like it's fixed in future versions.
Obviously, this problem is especially easy to miss during the winter in the
UK. :)
MEF
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