Hey,
My RedHat box replies for 'date' command as
[root@test ~]# date
Mon Jul 27 20:05:58 PDT 2009
Where in i want to change the timezone from PDT to IST.
Did as below.
[root@test~]# ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Calcutta /etc/localtime

[root@test~]# ll /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Jul 27 20:09 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Calcutta
[root@test~]# date
Mon Jul 27 20:10:31 PDT 2009

Tried rebooting the box, changing to other time zones,delete/rename America/Los_Angeles timezone but PDT time zone does not get changed.

Pls help me in getting the IST..

Thanks in advance for the support...
--Joy

#su
#setup

You can also get this done by doing what you did, except instead of making a link, copy it directly:

can't you? I know I've done this using Gentoo before, and possibly Linux From Scratch ...

Hi Amani and chigurh8,
Thanks for your quick responses..

I did ran system-config-date utility and set the zone to Asia/Calcutta.. and did copied the timezone to /etc/localtime. But still it appeares at PDT.

Even I am unable to sych the time to hwclock with command hwclock --systohc

is there any other workaround??

Hi,
I could find the cause..
It was happening because of login shell /etc/csh.login
The entry there was
setenv TZ = PDT
edited that to IST,its working fine now.

Thanks to all for the help and support.