Update tzdata on old servers
If you have an old server with FC2, FC3, FC4, FC5, FC6, FC7Â and soon FC8 this could be the solution you're looking for to get the system clock on time. Daylight savings time is notorious for moving the changeover dates around for all sorts of reason. In Australia it was the Olympics.
The fix is far simpler than you'd think:
1) login as the root user
2) useradd tzdata
3) su - tzdata
4) download two files from ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/
6) tar -zxvf tzdata2008h.tar.gz
7) make
8) exit
9) cd /home/tzdata
10) make install
11) su - tzdata
12) mkdir zoneinfo
13) zic -d zoneinfo Australasia (or your region)
14) exit
15) cd /home/tzdata/zoneinfo/Australia
16) cp Melbourne /etc/localtime
That's it! Now use the date command to check the time.
If you have an old server with FC2, FC3, FC4, FC5, FC6, FC7Â and soon FC8 this could be the solution you're looking for to get the system clock on time. Daylight savings time is notorious for moving the changeover dates around for all sorts of reason. In Australia it was the Olympics.
The fix is far simpler than you'd think:
1) login as the root user
2) useradd tzdata
3) su - tzdata
4) download two files from ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/
- tzcode2008h.tar.gz
- tzdata2008h.tar.gz
6) tar -zxvf tzdata2008h.tar.gz
7) make
8) exit
9) cd /home/tzdata
10) make install
11) su - tzdata
12) mkdir zoneinfo
13) zic -d zoneinfo Australasia (or your region)
14) exit
15) cd /home/tzdata/zoneinfo/Australia
16) cp Melbourne /etc/localtime
That's it! Now use the date command to check the time.