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May 04, 2011

Turning DST (daylight save time) off

Hi all,

 

 

I have a loadbalnacer working on Redhat Linux OS.

 

 

I tried to turnoff DST (daylight time save) but I didn't know how.

 

 

I wanted to modify /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Tunis file but I couldn't even if I have root rights.

 

 

Any idea please?

 

 

  • Hi Rafik,

     

     

    Tunis shouldn't be using DST by default. If you check the zoneinfo for this timezone, DST (isdst) is set to 0 for the future:

     

     

    zdump -v /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Tunis | tail -3

     

    /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Tunis Sun Oct 26 01:00:00 2008 UTC = Sun Oct 26 02:00:00 2008 CET isdst=0 gmtoff=3600

     

    /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Tunis Mon Jan 18 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Mon Jan 18 04:14:07 2038 CET isdst=0 gmtoff=3600

     

    /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Tunis Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Tue Jan 19 04:14:07 2038 CET isdst=0 gmtoff=3600

     

     

    If you want to set the timezone to UTC (which doesn't use DST either), you can check SOL8551:

     

     

    sol8551: F5 time zone update policy

     

    http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/8000/500/sol8551.html

     

     

    Aaron
  • Hi Aaron,

     

     

    The output of date commande is Fri Apr 29 17:57:56 CEST 2011

     

     

    timezone is set to /Africa/Tunis.

     

     

    As checked this file /Africa/Tunis, I found CET-1,CEST...

     

     

    I wanted to modify (by copying for example the content of /CET time or /Africa/Algiers) this file but it was impossible even with root rights,

     

     

    So it seems that I must set time zone to UTC.

     

     

    thanks