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RE: local timezone question





Hi,

If I remember correctly, it is not enough to have the zone file, you
have to tell the system to use it.

I think you can find it in the 'man clock' or so.

I have written it down somewhere, but I'm not near my Linux box, so I
cannot check it out at the moment.

Yossi A.


>>>>> "Stanislav" == Stanislav Malyshev a k a Frodo <frodo@sharat.co.il> writes:

    >> 
    >> 2. I compiled the attached file, but the time zone didn't change to IST,

    Stanislav> Maybe your localtime zone is set to Asia/Tel_Aviv, and the zone files
    Stanislav> defines Israel, or Asia/Jerusalem, or vice versa? I've seen similiar
    Stanislav> problems on my machine.

    >> it remained IDT. The problem is that I use ntpdate and it sets the clock
    >> according to summer time. Where do I change it to IST ? What program does

    Stanislav> AFAIK ntpdate is going in GMT? Or I miss something? Anyway, I just
    Stanislav> ended downloading all zone files from ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub
    Stanislav> (tzdata1998g.tar.gz IIRC) and compiled zone "asia", which included Israel.
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