FC4 timezone RPM problem

[Mark Haney]

Mike - EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:50:32 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
>
>   
>> At 12:17 PM -0500 3/12/07, Mike - EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
>>     
>>> I am having a problem updating my timezone data.
>>> Here is an example.
>>>
>>> # rpm -q tzdata
>>> tzdata-2005m-1.fc4
>>> # rpm -U --allfiles --force tzdata-2006g-1.fc4.src.rpm
>>> # rpm -q tzdata
>>> tzdata-2005m-1.fc4
>>>
>>> And the files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/
>>> are unchanged.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help.
>>>       
>> Well, naturally.  You "installed" a source RPM, so it doesn't affect the
>> binary RPM at all.
>>
>> Are you sure you need to update the tzdata?  I'd have thought that a 2005
>> tzdata would be fine for the US DST issue.  What do these report?
>>
>>     /usr/sbin/zdump -v America/New_York | grep 2007
>>     /usr/sbin/zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007
>> -- 
>>     
> [...]
>
> # /usr/sbin/zdump -v America/New_York | grep 2007
> America/New_York  Sun Mar 11 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000
> America/New_York  Sun Mar 11 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
> America/New_York  Sun Nov  4 05:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:59:59 2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
> America/New_York  Sun Nov  4 06:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:00:00 2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000
>
> # /usr/sbin/zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007
> /etc/localtime  Sun Apr  1 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Apr  1 01:59:59 2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000
> /etc/localtime  Sun Apr  1 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Apr  1 03:00:00 2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
> /etc/localtime  Sun Oct 28 05:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28 01:59:59 2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
> /etc/localtime  Sun Oct 28 06:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Oct 28 01:00:00 2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000
>
> Odd that one looks correct, and the other looks
> incorrect.  What do you advise?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike.
>
>
>   
No, it's not really odd, since it's /etc/localtime that is used by the 
system.  I generally just symlink /etc/localtime to the right timezone 
(/usr/share/zoneinfo in FC?) and it should be fine.



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Mark Haney
Sr. Systems Administrator	
ERC Broadband