Updating system's “Olson” Timezone Database Version

Question

My phpinfo() shows:

"Olson" Timezone Database Version   0.system

Instead of installing the pecl module, isnt it better if I can update the system timezone database / system?

How can I do that?

I'm ona RHEL5/CentOS system.

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams · Answer 1 · 2010-10-20 09:10:37Z

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Update the tzdata package.

answered Oct 20 '10 at 9:10

	that would do it for the system? – matt74tm Oct 20 '10 at 9:13
	That will update anything that can reasonably called the "system timezone database". – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Oct 20 '10 at 9:16
	Sorry to bother you, but how can I check the system timezone version? And I assume yum install tzdata should work fine to update? – matt74tm Oct 21 '10 at 12:05
	`rpm -q tzdata`, and if there's an update then yum will find it. – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Oct 21 '10 at 14:35
	This is slightly weird... rpm -q tzdata says: tzdata-2010l-1.el5 But elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub shows: tzcode2010m.tar.gz (notice the "m" version). – matt74tm Oct 22 '10 at 11:14

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Mikhail.Mamaev · Answer 2 · 2011-12-10 13:23:37Z

If you are using CentOS 6, then just upgrade package:

[sudo] yum update tzdata

For CentOS 5, copy timezone file from CentOS 6 to your /etc/localtime on CentOS 5 and wait for upgrade being released

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