redhat time weirdness

[Jacqueline Urick <jacque@opencitizen.com>]

Do any of you have an answer to this one? 


Thanks!

Jacque


> I'm having a problem with time zones and Red Hat.  I made the mistake of
> trying to compile and install glibc 2.1.2.  Since then, I've been having
> a problem with dates.  The system doesn't know what time zone it's in.
> I've tried re-setting the timezone with `date`, and it doesn't work.
> The `date` command by itself comes back with: "Fri Dec 17 15:34:33 Local
> time zone must be set--see zic manual page 1999".  Ack!
> 
> I've read the zic man page, and as far as I can see, the only thing
> applicable is the -l option which is supposed to tell linux what time
> zone it's in.  That didn't work either.
> 
> Does anybody have any suggestions?  I've tried various other things --
> this and that -- for hours and nothing works.  My next try will be to
> perform an upgrade on the box taking it up to 6.1 from 6.0, as I was
> meaning to do that anyways.  My hope is that the upgrade will set the
> time and date correctly again.  Who knows, eh?
> 

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