Regarding changing time zone to GMT0

[Minoru Asano]

Hello,

I would like to know how to change time zone to GMT0

[ENVIRONMENT]
RHEL ES 4 up2

[SITUATION]
I found the following KB.
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_35_3981.shtm
So I think that we can change time zone to GMT0 using following steps:
1. Change "GMT0" at ZONE argument at /etc/sysconfig/clock
2. Run "ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT0 /etc/localtime".

[QUESTION]
- Are above steps correct ?
- Why does not GMT0 appear with timeconfig ?
- Regarding timeconfig command, does timeconfig command perform only symbolic link ?
- Should we copy "/usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT0 to /etc/localtime ?

Thank you for advice.
Best Regards.
/Minoru.

[Ivan Ferreira · Accepted solution]

- Are above steps correct ?

Almost. It's normally not recommended to have a symlink to /etc/localtime, but this depends of the configuration, normally, because /usr could be a different mount point and not be available at some situations, so, it's better to copy the file over /etc/localtime.

- Why does not GMT0 appear with timeconfig ?

I don't know. Maybe you see UTC or GMT that it's the same.

- Regarding timeconfig command, does timeconfig command perform only symbolic link ?
- Should we copy "/usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT0 to /etc/localtime ?

See answer 1.

Cheers.

[skt_skt]

what about trying some thing similar to this.

[kumarts@adedla63p kumarts]$ date
Tue Jul 3 23:03:12 EDT 2007
[kumarts@adedla63p kumarts]$ TZ=BRT
[kumarts@adedla63p kumarts]$ export TZ
[kumarts@adedla63p kumarts]$ date
Wed Jul 4 03:04:22 BRT 2007

[Sac_3]

Try the command "tzselect".

The tzselect program asks the user for information about the current location, and outputs the resulting time zone description to standard output.

The output is suitable as a value for the TZ environment variable.

Here is the output:

[root@Test ~]# tzselect
Please identify a location so that time zone rules can be set correctly.
Please select a continent or ocean.
1) Africa
2) Americas
3) Antarctica
4) Arctic Ocean
5) Asia
6) Atlantic Ocean
7) Australia
8) Europe
9) Indian Ocean
10) Pacific Ocean
11) none - I want to specify the time zone using the Posix TZ format.
#?

[TY 007]

Hello,

# cd /etc
# mv localtime localtime.bak
# timeconfig

Verify new /etc/localtime file is created:
# ls -al /etc/localtime

Verify Date & Time:
# date
# date -u

Thanks