Problem with Date and Time Zone in CentOS 4.4
Last night I was configuring my new server and having trouble with changing the time zone. I use dateconfig command to change the time zone, I select “Asia/Jakarta” and save the configuration.
Strange thing is the time zone configuration is wrong, instead of WIT the time zone used is UTC. I tried to change the time zone again, this time I didn’t use dateconfig but by creating a symlink from /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Jakarta to /etc/localtime, it doesn’t work either.
Today, after trying several time creating symlink and didn’t worked, I started to think that maybe the /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Jakarta file is broken by dateconfig. So I search on Google using keywords “/usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Jakarta” and found that it’s stored on tzdata package. Runing yum search tzdata I got a result that there is an update for tzdata, I run the update and re-create the symlink. Ta daa.. it’s working 
I run ntpdate id.pool.ntp.org to synchronize the date and time, and now the date and time on my server synchronized.
Markus
October 23rd, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Thank you - you truely are a minor god among men. I’ve been trying to get my centOS webserver time correct for ages and now it works. I must admit being relatively new to *nix in general I would never have even known to try that. Thank you very much!