****RE: ****RE: ****RE: ****Changing the Time Zone

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Tue Sep 16 22:03:01 MST 2008


I *think* RH systems use Etc/GMT for the timezone

are you sure that it would be a mess to install?

how many packages does 'yum install system-config-date' try to install?

Craig

On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 21:56 -0700, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> Yes I do :)
> But how?  The system does not have any of the wounderfull system-confg
> tools /etc/local time is not a copy or link to any of the files in
> /usr/share/zoneinformation and date -u does not work globally, etc, etc,
> etc,
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of
> Craig White
> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 9:50 PM
> To: Main PLUG discussion list
> Subject: Re: ****RE: ****RE: ****Changing the Time Zone
> 
> sounds as if you want to set the time zone to GMT
> 
> Craig
> 
> On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 21:46 -0700, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> > The hardware clock is already set to UTC, but the OS has a global
> offset
> > of -7 hours set by a time zone.  I wish to set the time zone to UTC so
> > there is no diferance between the hardware clock and the system clock
> > and they both are UTC.
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of
> > Craig White
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 8:49 PM
> > To: Main PLUG discussion list
> > Subject: Re: ****RE: ****Changing the Time Zone
> > 
> > On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 20:41 -0700, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> > > The date command only changes the time for the user, I was hoping
> for
> > a
> > > global alteration.
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > > [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of
> > > Craig White
> > > Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 8:19 PM
> > > To: Main PLUG discussion list
> > > Subject: RE: ****Changing the Time Zone
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 19:55 -0700, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> > > > The hardware clock is already set to UTC.  I realize that I could
> > set
> > > it
> > > > forward 7 hours and have my timezone set it back seven but that is
> > > > nasty.  Unless you can use this somehow with hctosys to not only
> set
> > > the
> > > > time but also change the time zone...  Though the man does mention
> > the
> > > > command tzset, and that looks promising.  I will let you know.
> > > ----
> > > fwiw, I typically use 'date' command to set the time/date and then
> > > hwclock --systohc to set the hardware clock but I don't know if
> > setting
> > > the timezone or utc functions through these commands makes a
> permanent
> > > change.
> > ----
> > you're not tracking...the date command sets the date/time in a user
> > console but the hwclock command with --systohc writes that to the
> > hardware clock.
> > 
> > Craig
> > 
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