topic Re: time zone will not change in Operating System - Linux

time zone will not change

Matt Shaffer_1 — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:34:49 GMT

If I run date command from command line,time zone is wrong. If I login via VNC or to the console, the time zone is right. I've linked the /usr/share/zoneinfo/$TZ to /etc/localtime and also tried copying it. I am on east coast and date shows MDT. What is going on?

thanks.

Re: time zone will not change

Matt Shaffer_1 — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:37:00 GMT

I forgot to mention, server is rhel 4.3 and tz version is tzdata-2006a-1.EL4.

Re: time zone will not change

Matti_Kurkela — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:03:14 GMT

Please run "echo $TZ" in both situations. If the result is different, find out what is setting the TZ variable and make sure it is set/unset as appropriate in all situations.

Is /etc/localtime readable to all users? It should be.

MK

Re: time zone will not change

Matt Shaffer_1 — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:24:35 GMT

$TZ was just an example. See below for setup. Should be working.

new_edi:/root>ls -la /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Sep 17 07:56 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT

new_edi:/root>ls -la /usr/share/zoneinfo/ES*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1267 Sep 17 08:22 /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT

Re: time zone will not change

Ivan Ferreira — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:37:16 GMT

Ensure to update also /etc/sysconfig/clock.

Ensure to logout and login again. Be careful because changin the time zone may affect the system time and your applications.

Re: time zone will not change

Matt Shaffer_1 — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:35:34 GMT

ZONE="America/New_York"
UTC=false
ARC=false

output of date command still says MDT

Re: time zone will not change

Sandeep_Chaudhary — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:11:40 GMT

u can use

redhat-config-date

OR "timeconfig" command

Re: time zone will not change

Sandeep_Chaudhary — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:17:02 GMT

u can also try system-config-date

Re: time zone will not change

Matt Shaffer_1 — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:03:44 GMT