March 30, 1997
8:31 p.m.
Package: tzdata95i.tar.gz [from RedHat zoneinfo-96i-4.i386.rpm] Symptom: The timezone /usr/lib/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT-6 does not work correctly; if you use it, then set your clock using ntpdate, the system clock is 12 hours out. However if you use a different zoneinfo (e.g. America/Belize) it works fine. I believe the problem is in file "etcetera" in the tzdata package: ... Zone Etc/GMT-6 6 - GMT-6 Zone Etc/GMT-5 5 - GMT-5 Zone Etc/GMT-4 4 - GMT-4 ... Zone Etc/GMT+4 -4 - GMT+4 Zone Etc/GMT+5 -5 - GMT+5 Zone Etc/GMT+6 -6 - GMT+6 ... It appears that the zone offsets in column 3 have the wrong sign - can you check if this is the case? Regards, Brian Candler.