Syncing system time

Romain Kang yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Thu Mar 27 23:10:01 2003


> In my YDL 2.2 system, /etc/localtime is a link to /usr/share/zoneinfo/PST8PDT.
> date: Thu Mar 27 17:50:37 GMT 2003
> date -u Thu Mar 27 17:50:41 UTC 2003

Hmm, could your PST8PDT file have been overwritten by GMT?

brisby> ls -l PST8PDT
-rw-r--r--    4 root     root         1017 Dec 23 17:17 PST8PDT
brisby> md5sum PST8PDT 
7c7836c1a47b82d402e88495c6001abf  PST8PDT

brisby> ls -l GMT
-rw-r--r--   10 root     root           56 Dec 23 17:17 GMT
brisby> md5sum GMT
4ae21abf65ef26d2d732662e44f8fbbe  GMT