RE: Time and zone setting in RHEL3

From: Bordalo Fred (Fred.Bordalo_at_comverse.com)
Date: 09/21/05

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    Hi,

    I just went through this and I found that soft link does work - although
    in your case it because you use UTC. I recommend coping the file zone
    file instead of a soft link. This will work for local time
    configuration.

    The /etc/sysconfig/clock is read during boot by /etc/rc.sysinit to
    adjust the time. In your case, it will simply read the time without
    adjusting it.

    Fred

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    [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jeff
    Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 11:13 AM
    To: redhat-list@redhat.com
    Subject: Time and zone setting in RHEL3

    Ok, I know this should be dead simple but I just can't get the darn
    timezone and time correct on a new RHEL3 server i've just installed.

    I want it set for timezone GMT and the current GMT time.

    I can set the time no problem and i've manually edited the
    /etc/sysconfig/clock to have

    ZONE="GMT"
    UTC=true
    ARC=false

    I want both the system clock and hwclock to use UTC (or GMT) as the
    zone.

    using redhat-config-time doesn't give me an option for GMT or UTC.

    This is driving me nuts!

    so I moved /etc/localtime to /etc/localtime~ then set up a softlink to

    ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT /etc/localtime

    then rebooted and everything once again appears correct in the world
    again. The question now is, is this the correct way to fix the problem?
    Will this create any more problems?
    why isn't there a tool that will do this? I mean what's the point of
    redhat-config-date if it doesn't allow you to set things the way you
    want? GMT isn't even an available timezone in that tool.

    does /etc/sysconfig/clock do anything anymore?

    Thanks,

    Jeff 

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