[Cialug] Time change?

[Barry Von Ahsen]

kristau wrote:
> On 3/1/07, Adk <adk at 52761.com> wrote:
>> No one has mentioned potiental problems with pending DST change.
>>
>> I discovered this link today explaining solutions-
>>
>> www.tinyurl.com/ytfywq
>>
>> What precautions are others taking?
>>
>> Allen Kiddoo
> 
> I ran into a funny one while checking a Fedora Core 3 system
> yesterday.  There was a patch to the tzdata package already applied,
> but when I checked the /etc/localtime file, it did not appear to be
> applied.  The update changed the files under /usr/share/zoneinfo, but
> did not update the /etc/localtime file.
> 
> My fix was to remove the file and then symlink it to
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago.
> 

I noticed on a couple of systems where that was the case, there was also 
a glibc update which installed the correct zoneinfo file.  or as you 
mentioned, you could copy/symlink the /usr/share/ one

-barry