Hay, it worked! I just rebooted and now I'm on CDT. Awesome. Glad I asked. (wow, that's crappy snark) I heard Sun was sending out patches for this mini-y2k. I use Sun almost as much as I use Windows. ..What a weird thing to say. On 3/29/07, Shawn Fertch <sfertch at gmail.com> wrote: > > On 3/28/07, Erik Anderson <erikerik at gmail.com> wrote: > > On 3/28/07, Rob Terhaar <robbyt at robbyt.net> wrote: > > > ok can someone explain why just doing > > > ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago /etc/localtime > > > > > > is bad? > > > > I've wondered the same thing in the past. The best explanation I > > could come up with is that if you're symlinking your tz file and have > > /usr on a separate partition and that partition fails to mount > > someday, things could get messy. > > > > I'm a gentoo user, and when I started using the distro, they > > recommended symlinking that file. Recently though, they've changed > > their recommendation to actually copy the tz file. > > > > This is across all distros. It's brought on by our wonderful > legislatures changing when DST occurs. > > All that being said, there's more to making a system compliant for DST > than just updating the tzdata package. You also need to update glibc > packages, and if you're running java, that as well. > > On an RH/Fedora based system, there's a total of 4 packages if you > don't count java: > > Glibc-common > Glibc > Glibc-utils > Tzdata > > > If you read into the FAQ by Red Hat, you would notice that if you > updated all packages together, you do not need to change the > /etc/localtime file by hand. It's done automatically. It would be a > bad idea to delete the file, and recreate a symlink of /etc/localtime > to your /usr/share/zoneinfo/TZFILE as the localtime file will be > updated every time you update your system with the packages listed > above and revert back to a copy of your tz file. > > The /etc/localtime file is a copy of your timezone as specified within > the /etc/sysconfig/clock file on RH based systems. Or, equivalent > file depending upon your distro. > > -- > -Shawn > > -Nemo me impune lacessit. Ne Obliviscaris.. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20070401/435336c9/attachment.htm