FYI: /etc/localtime and changing to summer time

[antonio montagnani]

Mary Ellen Foster wrote/ha scritto, On/il 28/03/2004 10:26:

>If you, like me, are in the part of the world that changed to daylight 
>saving time overnight last night (Europe, at least; US and Canada are next 
>week), and your computer didn't make the change automatically, here's one 
>possible explanation and fix.
>
>Check the permission on /etc/localtime -- it should be -rw-r--r--. Due to a 
>bug in the Redhat time-configuration applet, it may instead be -rw------, 
>in which case the time zone rules can't take effect in any account other 
>than root.
>
>To resolve this, do "chmod a+r /etc/localtime" as root, and you should get 
>the correct timezone. The bugzilla report on this problem is 
>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109803, and it looks 
>like it's fixed in future versions.
>
>Obviously, this problem is especially easy to miss during the winter in the 
>UK. :)
>
>MEF
>
>
>  
>
Another issue might be that you are running a twin O.S. computer with 
Windows.
I have to start Windows then re-boot and time is fine...
Any other way to have summer time set properly in a computer like this??

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 Antonio M.

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