Time Zone information

[Allen, Jack]

Hello: 
        I have a customer that is running RH AS 4.7 and the time did not
change this weekend as it was suppose to. I know the time zone for the
system is located in /etc/localtime. I searched the web for a command
that would dump the information to show if it is the correct one they
should be using, but I was not able to find anything. During my
searching I kept running across things that said that /etc/localtime was
a symbolic link to /usr/share/zoneinfo/*. On the customer's systems and
mine /etc/localtime is not a symbolic link. So this could be the problem
on their system if the tzdata update, updated the time zone information
in /usr/share/zoneinfo/* assuming /etc/localtime would be pointing to
the correct updated file.

        So should it be a symbolic link? 

        How can I display the information in a time zone file to se the
settings. 

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Thanks: 
Jack Allen