setting time zone in redhat bugzilla

[Todd Denniston]

Phil Meyer wrote, On 04/23/2008 01:15 PM:
> Milos Jakubicek wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> maybe it is a stupid question and I just didn't notice something, but:
>>
>> Is there any way, how to setup a different time zone than EST in 
>> Redhat  bugzilla? (Even UTC would be better...:)
>>
>> Thanks for pointing to the right place, if there is any,
>> Milos
>>
> 
> Timezone is set during the initial install, but is quite easily changed 
> any time.
> 
> /etc/localtime is a file that the system utilities and libraries all use 
> to determine the timezone.  This file is sometimes a softlink, but is 
> most often a copy os a timezone file found in: /usr/share/zoneinfo
> 
> The procedure is simple, and almost painless.
> 
> To change the system timezone from whatever it is to Mountain Daylight 
> Savings time, for example:
> 
> # cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/MST7MDT /etc/localtime
> 
> Thats it!  Unfortunately, only applications that start after that file 
> change, get the new time.  To make everything ok, a reboot is necessary.
> 
> Good luck!
> 

Phil,
May I suggest you read the original post again?

he is suggesting that if you go to something like:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=441664
you will see
"Opened by Todd Denniston  	 on 2008-04-09 08:12 EST"
instead of
"Opened by Todd Denniston  	 on 2008-04-09 13:12 UTC"

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