ntpdate and Israel local time

[Oron Peled]

On Thursday, 27 בMay 2010 21:50:12 geoffrey mendelson wrote:
> On May 27, 2010, at 9:37 PM, Dan Shimshoni wrote:
> > ...
> > However, there is a server at my work place which I am responsible
> > for. When I run:
> > ntpdate -s ntpserver.huji.ac.il
> > it sets the time to 7 hours earlier (I mean, instead 19:00, it is  
> > 12:00).
> ...
> /etc/localtime is set to EST/EDT (US east coast)
> 
> ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Jerusalem /etc/localtime
> 
> Note that UBUNTU (and possibly debian) use a hard link or a copy of  
> the file instead of symlink.

RedHat/Centos/Fedora also create a copy and for a good reason: /usr
may be on a separate partition, in which case /etc/localtime is a
dangling link during early boot phases until /usr is mounted.

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