Denice said... |As far as I can tell, for SL 3: | versions prior to SL 3 Update 8 |and for SL 4: | versions prior to SL 4 Update 4 | |you need to manually intervene, because the glibc-common versions |for these older versions of SL do not trigger updates to /etc/localtime when |the tzdata RPMs are updated. | |So on previous versions of SL 3 and 4, after applying the latest |tzdata errata, you need to copy your timezone file to /etc/localtime; |for example: | | cp -p /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Vancouver /etc/localtime | |You can always compare the md5sums on /etc/localtime and your |timezone file in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ to check if you are really ready |for March 11th. Aha. We long ago forced a symlink for /etc/localtime. So we're safe from that particular bugaboo.