On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Brent L. Bates wrote:

>      I THOUGHT I had taken care of this, now I'm not so sure.  I downloaded
> and installed the lastest tzdata RPM.  `zdump -v' on the appropriate
> /usr/share/zoneinfo file showed the correct information.  I copied the
> zoneinfo file (/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York) to /etc/localtime and
> thought that should fix everything.  I've just been trying the command:
> 
> 	zdump -v localtime
> 
> and I'm not getting the correct information.  I first tried this in the /etc
> directory thinking it would get the local file and I got:
> 
> localtime  Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901 UTC = Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901 localtime isdst=0 gmtoff=0
> localtime  Sat Dec 14 20:45:52 1901 UTC = Sat Dec 14 20:45:52 1901 localtime isdst=0 gmtoff=0
> localtime  Mon Jan 18 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Mon Jan 18 03:14:07 2038 localtime isdst=0 gmtoff=0
> localtime  Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 localtime isdst=0 gmtoff=0
> 
>      I then tried:
> 
> 	zdump -v ./localtime
> 
> same as above.  I then tried:
> 
> 	zdump -v /etc/localtime

This way looks at file /etc/localtime ,  the important thing there is the 
beginning "/" .  If there is not beginnning "/" then it looks at 
/usr/share/zoneinfo/<whatname you used>

 > 
> and that gave me what I was looking for.  Anyone have any thoughts on this?
> I can not find anything in the manuals that would even hint at what I'm seeing.
> Am I worrying about nothing here?  Thanks for any help.

Man page is clearly short on info.

> 
> 

-Connie Sieh