0003975: Can not change timezone

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0003975

[CentOS-5] tzdata

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2009-11-03 18:41

2009-11-03 21:38

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ill-logic

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open

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new

Product Version

5.4

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0003975: Can not change timezone

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I upgraded to CentOS 5.3 from 5.4 by doing a yum upgrade. After the upgrade the timezone was set to UTC so I tried running tzselect to change it to CT. You can see a full screen capture from running tzselect here: http://pastebin.com/m5af09289. [^] Notice how the the before and after times both still have UTC even though I chose America/Chicago.

When tzselect didn't work I tried I renamed /etc/localtime and then symlinked that path to /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago. I then rebooted the system and found that didn't work either.

Lastly I changed /etc/sysconfig/clock so it had ZONE="America/Chicago". Then I ran /usr/sbin/tzdata-update and rebooted the system. That didn't work either.

How can I change the timezone on my upgraded CentOS 5.4 VMs?

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(0010257) jhughes@hughesjr.com (administrator) 2009-11-03 18:53	Make sure that the OTHER variable is also set correctly in /etc/sysconfig/clock : UTC=false If UTC=true is set, it will convert the time to UTC.

(0010258) ill-logic (reporter) 2009-11-03 19:02	It is set to false... [btheisen@lb02 ~]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/clock ZONE="America/Chicago" UTC=false ARC=false [btheisen@lb02 ~]$ date Tue Nov 3 19:01:27 UTC 2009 It's probably worth noting that this is happening in a Slicehost VM. I'll try to reproduce on some of my standalone boxes here at work too though.

(0010263) ill-logic (reporter) 2009-11-03 21:38	I tried to reproduce this issue on a standalone server and was unable to. Appears to be a Slicehost specific problem. Sorry for the hassle.

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2009-11-03 18:41	ill-logic	New Issue
2009-11-03 18:41	ill-logic	Assigned To	=> kbsingh@karan.org
2009-11-03 18:53	jhughes@hughesjr.com	Note Added: 0010257
2009-11-03 19:02	ill-logic	Note Added: 0010258
2009-11-03 21:38	ill-logic	Note Added: 0010263