David wrote:
> The latest panic at work is, of course, the DST changes coming up in
Seems to be a common thing lately...
> march. I like to think that I have my systems set to UTC with the correct
> zone specified, however, I'm not sure. I've just been checking all my
> rhel servers and lo and behold, /etc/zoneinfo is not a symlink. My dark
> side says that I'm not utc, but...how can I tell for sure?
I think if you just run 'date' (assuming no TZ variable is set in the env) it
should tell you. If you are set to UTC it should say something like:
Fri Feb 16 18:40:18 UTC 2007
Should be 7 hours ahead of the current Az time.
> I realize that AZ isn't affected by the change, but we have customers in
> other states that are affected.
>
> One other question. using zic to create a new TZ file, does it default to
> overwriting the current /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST file? I can't find in the
> man page how to write it to, say, /tmp/EST so I can verify it.
> Redirecting didn't work.
On my ubuntu system it looks like there's a -d flag:
-d directory
Create time conversion information files in the named directory
rather than in the standard directory named below
In any case, the usr/share stuff is likely read-only to non-root users so if
you do try as a user other than root you should probably be safe -- please
check, of course.
HTH,
Jeff
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