FC4 timezone RPM problem

[jdow]

From: "Mark Haney" <mhaney at ercbroadband.org>

> 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.

For reasons of insanity or whatever FC4 does not have the /etc/localtime
file symlinked. <sigh> I suppose that does make sense if /usr mounts
well after /etc.

{^_^}