****Changing the Time Zone

[Craig White]

Hi,

On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 18:48 -0700, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> I do not have any system-config tools.  I know I can get them with a
> GNOME install, but that is a bit heavy handed.
> 
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> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of
> Craig White
> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 6:41 PM
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> Subject: Re: ****Changing the Time Zone
> 
> On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 18:31 -0700, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> > I have an FC/Redhat/CentOS box and I would like to change my time zone
> > for the entire system and all users to UTC; date -u seems to only
> > changes the individual users zone.  And, since I don't have a GUI on
> > my box I can not use system-config-time.  So, I was
> > thinking /etc/localtime should be a simlink to the time zone
> > in /usr/share/zoneinformation rite?  I can just change that with a new
> > symlink, rite? But the file I have in /etc/localtime is a small binary
> > file and that made me nervous.  Then I thought, setup, how much more
> > basic could I get!  But it does not have a time zone option, only
> > Authentication and System Services. 
> ----
> system-config-date
> 
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in that case...

# cat /etc/sysconfig/clock
# The ZONE parameter is only evaluated by system-config-date.
# The timezone of the system is defined by the contents
of /etc/localtime.
ZONE="America/Phoenix"
UTC=true
ARC=false

But I don't know what, other than a restart, would cause the system to
re-read this configuration file.

Craig