change timezone?

Rick Stevens ricks at nerd.com
Thu Oct 30 21:32:02 UTC 2008


Mike Wright wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've one host that insists it is living in PST, the rest of my hosts 
> know that it is still PDT.
> 
> I'm guessing there's a flag somewhere that says "Adjust for Daylight 
> Savings Time"?
> 
> Even after I've correctly set the time and fired up ntpd the time 
> eventually (un)corrects itself back to PST.
> 
> At a loss here; any takers?

A year or so ago the government changed when the switch occurs.  There
was a timezone update that covered that.  Make sure your system has the
current tzdata RPM (IIRC it's "tzdata-2008h-1.fc(8/9).noarch.rpm").
That should fix it.
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