[NTLUG:Discuss] timezone woes

[Chris Cox]

kbrannen at gte.net wrote:
....
> [root at cvs lib]# date
> Thu Sep 20 01:55:07 GMT-6 2001
> [root at cvs lib]# echo $TZ
> 
> [root at cvs lib]# date -R
> Thu, 20 Sep 2001 01:57:54 +0600
> 
> which bears out the fact that they're 11 hours off!  And yes, they both sync
> up to a common NTP server.  It seems this errant one thinks it's in the
> "GMT-6" timezone, and I can't find any config file under /etc (or /usr/lib)
> that I can change to make it correct.  If I look at both machines in
> linuxconf, except for the hour, both have the same settings.
> 
> What am I missing?

Check for /etc/localtime (not sure about RH 6.2 though).  Anyway if
it exists it's probably either a link or a copy of a file from
the zoneinfo database (usually /usr/share/zoneinfo).  If it's a copy,
you may want to do checksums on localtime and compare with the
zoneinfo entries.   Some systems have a 'tzselect' command to
help administrate selection of timezones under Linux.

Hope that helps,
Chris