[TriLUG] Daylight savings time...

David McDowell turnpike420 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 8 14:04:41 EST 2007


eh... don't you just need to update the tzdata rpm?  That wouldn't
affect the kernel would it?
tzdata-2006m-3.el4  <- this ver has the updated timezone info

run this to check:  zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007

David
http://www.notollson540.org


On 3/8/07, OlsonE at aosa.army.mil <OlsonE at aosa.army.mil> wrote:
> Here's what our "ghetto solution was". We used it for Windows (2000),
> but I'm sure it could be applied elsewhere.
>
> 1) Turn off automatic dst updating.
> 2) Manually set the timezone.
> 3) Sync with a NTP server (which in our case, is a Windows 2003 machine,
> that's already patched for DST), which syncs with time.nist.gov ...or
> pool.ntp.org if you're picky ;).
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf Of dsandif
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 1:47 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: [TriLUG] Daylight savings time...
>
> I have a 64 bit machine running RHELWS 4. The current kernel can not be
> changed or up graded because it will destroy the raid setup due to the
> fact that current kernels don't yet support the raid hardware so so only
> the necessary applications are updated. I want to know can I get away
> with just getting the necessary DST patch for my redhat OS without
> having to up date the kernel as I've done so in the past. My hope is
> once RHEL 5 comes out, I won't have to worry about this but until then,
> I'll keep excluding the kernel update and get just the apps. Thxs.
>
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