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Hi,

My Redhat 6.2 system has a peculiar configuration, the system date is
set for EST, but the file dates on "ls -l" appear to have UTC by
default. Look what happens when I do the following (I have edited this
slightly to avoid username info):

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$ date
Fri Jan 19 13:06:09 EST 2001
$ touch here
$ ls -l here
-rw-rw-r--   1 xxxx xxxxxx       0 Jan 19 18:06 here
$ date -u
Fri Jan 19 18:06:24 UTC 2001

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I have tried changing the UTC=true and UTC=false in
the /etc/sysconfig/clock with no improvement (the file dates and the
default "date" dates are always off by the timezone difference between
UTC and EST).

I have set my "TZ" environement variable in my shell, and that doesn't
seem to help either.

Intuitively the "ls -l" dates should show up in the time zone of the
system, right? How can I set Redhat do be this way.

Thanks,

-Cris

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I'm replying to my own post with the answer for the benefit of others
who stumble across this one...

The TZ environment variable has to be set to something like "xxxN"
where N is the difference in hours between the local time zone and the
UTC. I have not found the official explanation of why "US/Eastern"
or "America/New_York" are not valid TZ values with respect to ls.
Perhaps the binary I have for ls doesn't support these formats.

-Cris

Quote:> Hi,

> My Redhat 6.2 system has a peculiar configuration, the system date is
> set for EST, but the file dates on "ls -l" appear to have UTC by
> default. Look what happens when I do the following (I have edited this
> slightly to avoid username info):

> -------

> $ date
> Fri Jan 19 13:06:09 EST 2001
> $ touch here
> $ ls -l here
> -rw-rw-r--   1 xxxx xxxxxx       0 Jan 19 18:06 here
> $ date -u
> Fri Jan 19 18:06:24 UTC 2001

> -------
> I have tried changing the UTC=true and UTC=false in
> the /etc/sysconfig/clock with no improvement (the file dates and the
> default "date" dates are always off by the timezone difference between
> UTC and EST).

> I have set my "TZ" environement variable in my shell, and that doesn't
> seem to help either.

> Intuitively the "ls -l" dates should show up in the time zone of the
> system, right? How can I set Redhat do be this way.

> Thanks,

> -Cris

> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/

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