2007 DST Change on Redhat 8 2

[zhenning]

I have searched previous discussions about DST change on linux and successfully patched one Redhat Enterprise 3 server. But I have another Redhat 8 server which is a retired version. I did not find any rpm packages for DST change on Redhat 8. How could I do this?

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[sleipnir214]

This:

http://linux.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/linux.redhat/2007-01/msg00028.html

might help you figure out how to update the timezone tables manually.


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[zhenning]

Thanks for the link. But in my system, I do not have /etc/zoneinfo directory. I have /usr/share/zoneinfo directory where has all the time zones. But there is no /usr/share/zoneinfo/source directory. What could be the reason?

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[sleipnir214]

I don't have it, either, on my FC6 system. You might just try running zic against the northamerica directory in your tmp directory instead of copying it over first.


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[normntwrk]

Found a good resource here which worked for me on a test RH8 system

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=518752

Also did the same thing on my production server but would like to figure out how to get it to reread the time info without rebooting'

Norm

 

[zhenning]

It worked for me! Just run "zic northamerica" under the tmp directory and the DST info got changed to the correct format.

Thanks for your guys help!!

Zhenning