[olug] Linux DST

Brian Roberson roberson at olug.org
Mon Mar 12 16:14:45 UTC 2007


I am sure someone sent this out to the list already - but I thought I would be nice and pass it
on again.

For those of you who have not already dealt with the DST change for this year, Here is a quick 
"get it fixed" script. You may need to change a path or two, but works for sure on all flavors 
of Suse and CENT-OS


All my stuff is in CST - just sub in EDT/PST/MST where needed


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mkdir -p /tmp/tz && cd /tmp/tz
wget ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata*.tar.gz
tar xvzf tzdata*.tar.gz
zic -d /tmp/tz northamerica
cp -f CST6CDT /usr/share/zoneinfo
cp -f America/Chicago /usr/share/zoneinfo/America
rm -f /etc/localtime
cp -f CST6CDT /etc/localtime
zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007


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That last line will show you the DST changes for 2007






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