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I want to set my timezone to America/New_York. date says that the current time is CEST. I'm using systemd, no desktop environment.
Right now I have
/etc/localtime links to /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York
/etc/timezone set to "America/New_York"
/etc/rc.conf set to "America/New_York" (arch linux should be ignored by systemd)
$TZ is unset
Hardware clock is set to utc time and works fine.
TZ=utc date
gives the right output.
Unfortunately I'm still on CEST. Am I missing something?
Looks like /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York has incorrect content.
Try issuing zdump America/New_York or TZ=America/New_York date
[root@jupiter etc]# zdump /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York Tue Jul 3 19:20:40 2012 CEST Seems you're right ...
/usr/share/zoneinfo/. Actually, previously there was also such a reason due to problems with separate /usr partition layout making the link dangling until it got mounted finally during boot. Another one, as your issue shows is overwriting /etc/localtime would muck up original file as well. So, it's better to cp not ln…