[NTLUG:Discuss] time problem

[Kyle Davenport]

was it really corrupted or in tzfile format?  zic compiled files like localtime
will say "timezone data" when you do a "file localtime"   A redhat install
copies your choice of timezone from the /usr/share/zoneinfo/whatever to
/etc/localtime.   Do a man on tzfile and zic.

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Fred James <fredjame at concentric.net> on 02/20/2001 01:15:30 AM

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My sincere thanks!
/etc/localtime turned out to be a file in its own right, with what appeared to
be corrupt data inside.
making that a link to /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Central did solve my problem.
Thanks again.


MadHat wrote:

> look in the /etc dir for a symlink called localtime.
>
> Make sure it points to the right place...
> # ls -l /etc/localtime
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           30 Feb  3  2000 /etc/localtime ->
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Central
>
(snip)