[lug] local timezone bad after update

[Hugh Brown]

On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 18:15 -0700, Zan Lynx wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 18:10 -0700, D. Stimits wrote:
> > I did a massive yum update on a Fedora Core 2 box. Now the timezone is 
> > all messed up and I CAN'T make it do the right thing. If I tell my clock 
> > to display Denver time zone, it works right. If I tell it to use local 
> > time zone, it fails badly...I cannot, in any way, force or make it think 
> [snip]
> > What file 
> > can I manually edit to force this?
> 
> /etc/localtime should be a symlink
> to /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Denver.  It can also be a copy but I like
> it better as a symlink.


I have this happen to me once per machine it seems, and I always end up
tracing the start up scripts to find out where the time is getting set.
I usually grep hwclock from /etc/init.d/*

HTH,

Hugh