Hi all
I live in Egypt and we used to have Daylight Saving Time in this time of the year. But due to some political conditions, this desicision was revoked and we are not using DST this year. The problem is that my Redhat 5.6 machines, configured to the timezon Africa/Cairo has already set the DST (UTC+3). The current time in Egypt is UTC+2. Of course i can manually set the time but the servers are set to sync automatically with an NTP time server so that time gets synced automatically whenever i try to change it.
I want a way or another to disable DST switching.
Thanks a lot

Ok i figured out the solution. It was simply to change the default time zone to another that uses UTC+2 and does not apply DST. The selected time zone was Africa/Harare and the command to change to it is

Thanks

Thanks that worked, this will be a temporary fix until the timezone file is updated

Update: Its fixed now in the latest tzdata package (2011g-1)

hi
I am from Egypt also and i 'll tray this

would you please share the link for this package to download it for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4

Thanks