How will I find out if my timezone will change automatically

[pablinux]

Hi,

I've been tasked with making sure our timezone on our GNU Linux box will change from BST to GMT when the clocks change

sjp17ora01vm 2.6.18-164.0.0.0.1.el5xen #1 SMP Thu Sep 3 00:34:43 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

What needs to be in place to do this?

I've read that the /usr/share/zoneinfo needs to link /etc/localtime pointing to your time zone change it to link to GMT in /usr/share/zoneinfo

Is this the case

Please help

Paul

[yancek]

Do you mean with the change from Daylight Savings Time? I never have to deal with that as we don't use DST but a quick google brought up this:

Daylight Saving Time (DST) Handling in Linux

f that doesn't satisfy you, just google "linux daylight savings time change". You'll get a lot of hits.

[Siddly]

Hi,

I've been tasked with making sure our timezone on our GNU Linux box will change from BST to GMT when the clocks change

sjp17ora01vm 2.6.18-164.0.0.0.1.el5xen #1 SMP Thu Sep 3 00:34:43 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

What needs to be in place to do this?

I've read that the /usr/share/zoneinfo needs to link /etc/localtime pointing to your time zone change it to link to GMT in /usr/share/zoneinfo

Is this the case

Please help

Paul

Date/Time should have been set up at install time and changes between GMT and BST happen automatically.
From /usr/share/zoneinfo, these are the links
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2011-10-07 00:27 GB -> Europe/London
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2011-10-07 00:27 GB-Eire -> Europe/London
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2011-10-07 00:27 GMT -> Etc/GMT
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2011-10-07 00:27 GMT0 -> Etc/GMT
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2011-10-07 00:27 GMT-0 -> Etc/GMT
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2011-10-07 00:27 GMT+0 -> Etc/GMT
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2011-10-07 00:27 Greenwich -> Etc/GMT

I can't remember if I ever had to manually take care of time changes going back over 20 years and many distros.
Currently running Ubuntu and openSUSE and it has always happened automatically. If it ever didn't, I certainly would file a bug against whatever distro didn't take care of it.

[pablinux]

Both servers are set to UTC which is the preferred option to keep it in daylight savings


# The timezone of the system is defined by the contents of /etc/localtime.
ZONE="Europe/London"
UTC=true
ARC=false
$ date -u
Wed Oct 12 14:28:36 UTC 2011

$ date
Wed Oct 12 15:38:31 BST 2011

I have nothing linked in /usr/share/zoneinfo

So I'm hoping this will automatically get update

Paul