Linux Help.... Timezone in Redhat 9

[htmlmasterdave]

I'm trying to figure out how to change the timezone in redhat. Right now it seems stuck on EDT, and I need to switch it to EST. Any help would be greatly appreciated TIA

 

[drag]

I am not sure if this will do it, but try the "tzselect" command.

 

[htmlmasterdave]

Well it does seem to try and let you choose a timezone but it doesn't seem to work. When I run the "date" command it still comes up as EDT

 

[Abzstrak]

dunno if Redhat uses it for sure, but check for a /etc/rc.conf... It should be in there

 

[htmlmasterdave]

Originally posted by: Abzstrak
dunno if Redhat uses it for sure, but check for a /etc/rc.conf... It should be in there

It doesn't seem to...

 

[TonyRic]

In the gui you can run redhat-config-time or you can manually remove the link /etc/localtime and then recreate it by doing the following "ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York /etc/localtime" or "ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT /etc/localtime" this last one will automatically change from EST to EDT, and back. Or you can always setup NTP if you are connected to the internet permanently and never have to worry about it again.

 

[htmlmasterdave]

I think it may be more of a problem with phpBB. My forum is saying the time is one hour before what it really is for some reason. http://coldfear.homelinux.com/forums/index.php Do I maybe need to install phpBB again? At the time when I installed it the clock was off an hour...(i thought that since I set phpBB to GMT -5 that the timezone must be wrong...)

 

[drag]

you can get to redhat's time configuration tool thru the main menu, but if you want the actual command for it is: redhat-config-date.

Try that. Also make sure that your hardware is set to the correct time.

here is some info on dealing with the time settings and clocks in Linux

Also you can set up your clock to use a network server to keep in sync. Here is the command I use "ntpdate clock.nyc.he.net ntp-1.ece.cmu.edu ntp.cox.smu.edu", but there is lots of different mirrors you can use. you can get a list of public servers here

They are all based off of the atomic clocks are are accurate within (probably) a .03 of a second, depending on the server.

In redhat I think you can set it up by right-clicking on your desktop clock to use ntp servers to keep itself in sync and it will poll the servers automaticly every once and a while to correct clock scew.

The clock is something most people dont' mess around with so that it's a bit hard to set it accurately, but once it's done you'll not have to mess with it again for a long long time and by that time you would have forgotten everything anyways.

If you had to set the time for the php stuff, then the information is probably stored in a configuration file somewere. All system-wide configuration is stored in /etc/, but other then that I don't know anything about phpbb or anything.

 

[htmlmasterdave]

Apparently it's a phpBB issue... doesn't support daylight savings time, thanks for all the help tho, I did end up setting up an NTP daemon.

 

[n0cmonkey]

What's the difference between EST and EDT?

EDIT:
EST: Eastern Standard Time.
EDT: Eastern Daylight time.

I guess it's a daylight savings thing.

EDIT2: It looks like there are mods to get things working, and a hint at 2.2 supporting it. I don't care what they say, this is a bug.

 

[htmlmasterdave]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
What's the difference between EST and EDT?

EDIT:
EST: Eastern Standard Time.
EDT: Eastern Daylight time.

I guess it's a daylight savings thing.

EDIT2: It looks like there are mods to get things working, and a hint at 2.2 supporting it. I don't care what they say, this is a bug.

Yeah, my bad ... bit of a brain fart