Bret, that's not easy.... but I'll try.
Check /etc/sysconfig/clock... mine reads
UTC=false
ARC=false
and I'm in the same timezone (although mine always goes
back to EST when I reboot... hmmm.... maybe I've got my
timezone at EST and not EST5EDT.)
The other file to check is /etc/localtime, but that's part
a binary.... however, I notice that near the end of the file,
it plaintexts the time zone (in my case with EST EDT at the
end). This file, BTW, is a copy of information in
/usr/shar/zoneinfo, according to the documentation and in
reality... It looks like you HAVE to use a tool to properly
configure timezones, though, in RedHat (versus, for example,
in IRIX there is a file called /etc/timezone where you simply
specify EST5EDT). Try timeconfig.
Bill Ward
-----Original Message-----
From: Bret Hughes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 4:14 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: file date time stamps
Ward William E PHDN wrote:
> Ok, I'll accept that. However, it >still< seems to me that it's
> curious that there is a four hour difference when he's in EDT and
> EDT is four hours off UTC, which is the default time kept on many
> Unix machines in hardware, is an option in Linux, etc. Looks to me
> like he may have something that either thinks he's keeping UTC when
> he's not, or one that thinks he's NOT using UTC when he is... and
> judging from what you've said and what he said when I mentioned
> this point, it's the first of those two.
>
> Of course, that doesn't tell him WHERE the problem is... just WHAT
> the problem is.
Where all should the timezone variable be set? I seem to remember that the
timestamps are actually stored at the system time and then converted for
display based on the TimeZone setting. I have had problems with time after
every redhat install until I went into timettol or linuxconf and acutually
selected the city nearest me from te list that included the weird ones like
Arizona and eastern indiana.
I don't know if this is the probelm but it seems athat something is looking
in
one place for the timezone and the other program in another.
HTH
Bret
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