Changing timezone without reboot/restarting each service?

[Mark Felder]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014, at 06:36, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> 
>  After changing timezones in Russia (with replacing /etc/localtime
> with new file), I found that cron works in "old" timezone till
> restart. And all other services do the same, but cron is most obvious
> here :)
> 
>  Looks like libc reads timezone only once and it could not be chamged
> for process without restart (which leads to, effectivly, restart of
> whole server).
> 
>  Is it known problem? I think, it should be fixed somehow. I
> understand, that re-check timezone file on each time-related call
> could be expensive, though :(
> 

I think this was one of the crowning achievements of systemd, but I'm
sure someone can come up with something much more sane than that to
address this problem.