Time and zone setting in RHEL3

[Jeff]

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> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Bordalo Fred
> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 11:41
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: RE: Time and zone setting in RHEL3
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just went through this and I found that soft link does work 
> - although in your case it because you use UTC. I recommend 
> coping the file zone file instead of a soft link. This will 
> work for local time configuration.  

Fred,

What do you mean exactly here?  

#cp /usr/share/timezone/GMT /etc/localtime


> 
> The /etc/sysconfig/clock is read during boot by 
> /etc/rc.sysinit to adjust the time. In your case, it will 
> simply read the time without adjusting it.
> 
> Fred 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jeff
> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 11:13 AM
> To: redhat-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Time and zone setting in RHEL3
> 
> Ok, I know this should be dead simple  but I just can't get 
> the darn timezone and time correct on a new RHEL3 server i've 
> just installed.
> 
> I want it set for timezone GMT and the current GMT time.
> 
> I can set the time no problem and i've manually edited the 
> /etc/sysconfig/clock to have
> 
> ZONE="GMT"
> UTC=true
> ARC=false
> 
> I want both the system clock and hwclock to use UTC (or GMT) 
> as the zone.
> 
> using redhat-config-time doesn't give me an option for GMT or UTC. 
> 
> This is driving me nuts!  
> 
> so I moved /etc/localtime to /etc/localtime~ then set up a 
> softlink to 
> 
> ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT /etc/localtime 
> 
> then rebooted and everything once again appears correct in 
> the world again. The question now is, is this the correct way 
> to fix the problem? Will this create any more problems? why 
> isn't there a tool that will do this? I mean what's the point 
> of redhat-config-date if it doesn't allow you to set things 
> the way you want?  GMT isn't even an available timezone in that tool.
> 
> does /etc/sysconfig/clock do anything anymore?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
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