> On 3/27/07, Bob Hartmann <bob.hartmann at gmail.com> wrote: >> Debian. >> I'm not getting email from the list, btw. I can see my posts on the >> archive, tho, so I appreciate your help here. > > You're using gmail, which doesn't handle mailing list replies > particularly well. Make sure to hit "reply-to-all" to make sure your > emails get sent out to the whole list, not just the person who replied > to your message. > > Anyway - I don't use debian, but I believe you can run: > > $ apt-get update > $ apt-get install tzdata > > That should do it...no reboot required :-) > > -erik NTP does not affect timezone settings. To determine if your timezone data is current (at least with regards to the US DST change) you can run zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007 if you see Sun Apr 1 then you know you have old data if you see Sun Mar 11 then you are current This is a little shell script I wrote to ease updating many servers of mixed distros. It worked on redhat 7.3, rhel3, suse 9.2, suse 9.3 and openbsd (except localtime is a symlink). It assumes you're running as root. wget ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2007c.tar.gz mkdir tzdata mv tzdata2007c.tar.gz tzdata cd tzdata mkdir zoneinfo.bak ls -ld /etc/localtime sleep 3s # look to make sure localtime is not a symlink ls -ld /etc/localtime > zoneinfo.bak/localtime.zdump.txt zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007 >> zoneinfo.bak/localtime.zdump.txt cp /etc/localtime /root/tzdata/zoneinfo.bak/ cd /usr/share/ tar czvf /root/tzdata/zoneinfo.bak/zoneinfo.tar.gz zoneinfo/ cd /root/tzdata tar zxvf tzdata2007c.tar.gz zic -d zoneinfo northamerica cd zoneinfo/ cp -rf * /usr/share/zoneinfo cp -f CST6CDT /etc/localtime zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007 Most server processes that care about time will check the localtime when they start and never check again during their life. You can just restart services but I prefer to reboot after you get patched to make sure all running processes notice the change. Java and things that depend on Java (eg recent versions of Cold Fusion) maintain their own timezone settings so they have OS independence. Sun has a great and simple tzupdate.jar file for patching all java executables. It worked great for me as well.