****Changing the Time Zone

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 19:45 -0700, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> Since I don't even have that config file I have not pursued solutions
> that require it ;)  

> 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.
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I think that like many of /etc/sysconfig files on Red Hat systems, if the files don't exist, they are ignored but if they exist, they are used.

Clearly the comments in the file suggest that the timezone setting is ignored

Craig