Hay, it worked! I just rebooted and now I'm on CDT. Awesome. Glad I asked.<br>(wow, that's crappy snark)<br>I heard Sun was sending out patches for this mini-y2k. <br>I use Sun almost as much as I use Windows. ..What a weird thing to say.
<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/29/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Shawn Fertch</b> <<a href="mailto:sfertch@gmail.com">sfertch@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 3/28/07, Erik Anderson <<a href="mailto:erikerik@gmail.com">erikerik@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> On 3/28/07, Rob Terhaar <<a href="mailto:robbyt@robbyt.net">robbyt@robbyt.net</a>> wrote:<br>> > ok can someone explain why just doing
<br>> > ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago /etc/localtime<br>> ><br>> > is bad?<br>><br>> I've wondered the same thing in the past. The best explanation I<br>> could come up with is that if you're symlinking your tz file and have
<br>> /usr on a separate partition and that partition fails to mount<br>> someday, things could get messy.<br>><br>> I'm a gentoo user, and when I started using the distro, they<br>> recommended symlinking that file. Recently though, they've changed
<br>> their recommendation to actually copy the tz file.<br>><br><br>This is across all distros. It's brought on by our wonderful<br>legislatures changing when DST occurs.<br><br>All that being said, there's more to making a system compliant for DST
<br>than just updating the tzdata package. You also need to update glibc<br>packages, and if you're running java, that as well.<br><br>On an RH/Fedora based system, there's a total of 4 packages if you<br>don't count java:
<br><br>Glibc-common<br>Glibc<br>Glibc-utils<br>Tzdata<br><br><br>If you read into the FAQ by Red Hat, you would notice that if you<br>updated all packages together, you do not need to change the<br>/etc/localtime file by hand. It's done automatically. It would be a
<br>bad idea to delete the file, and recreate a symlink of /etc/localtime<br>to your /usr/share/zoneinfo/TZFILE as the localtime file will be<br>updated every time you update your system with the packages listed<br>above and revert back to a copy of your tz file.
<br><br>The /etc/localtime file is a copy of your timezone as specified within<br>the /etc/sysconfig/clock file on RH based systems. Or, equivalent<br>file depending upon your distro.<br><br>--<br>-Shawn<br><br>-Nemo me impune lacessit. Ne Obliviscaris..
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