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Bug 103722

Summary: Timeconf fails to update /etc/localtime
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 Reporter: Roger Nunn <rnunn>
Component: timeconfigAssignee: Brent Fox <bfox>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Roger Nunn 2003-09-04 12:12:02 UTC
Description of problem:
After changeing the operating system timezone using timeconfig the date command
fails to recognise the new timezone (The /etc/localtime file is not updated from  
/usr/share/zoneinfo/)


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How reproducible:
100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1.Run timeconfig
2.type <date> to check timezone 

    
Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:
workaround using Europe/London as the defined timezone:
cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London /etc/localtime

Comment 1 Roger Nunn 2003-09-04 13:47:48 UTC
Further tests show the response to be predictable.