CentOS - Sep 2009 - UTC timezone not available in RHEL4

Hi all,

 

I have been using Red Hat for a very long time and run CentOS 4 on some of
my production servers. One of the things that

has bugged me for a long time is the fact in the Time Zone configuration
there is not a selection for UTC or GMT. 

 

As a work around I have been linking the /etc/localtime ->
/usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC 

which works, but when Yum auto updates to a new version it resets the
timezone back to EST.  When this happens

it messes up my timings in the crontab. 

 

Is there a reason UTC is missing a timezone selection in RHEL4?  It is an
option in RHEL5. 

 

Is there a better way to set the system to UTC then the /etc/localtime ->
/usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC 

work around, and its problems??

 

Thanks,

 

Mike

 

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Michael Dross wrote:
> Is there a better way to set the system to UTC then the /etc/localtime
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> /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC
Try /etc/sysconfig/clock as well as /etc/localtime

There is a UTC option in the clock file as well.

nate