Help getting wrong time zone from rdate.cpanel.net

Hi,

My server came up CDT time and I changed its time zone in WHM to EST time zone. I also modified /etc/localtime to /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST

now whenever i do
rdate -l rdate.darkorb.net
or
rdate -l rdate.darkorb.net

or sync with cpanel time zone server i always get CDT time and not EST TIME.

I know i can use date -s command to setup the time but i want to sync it automatically.

I really put my head for 2 hours and now fade up. Can anyone help?

I am running
WHM 10.8.0 cPanel 10.9.0-S9966
CentOS 4.4 i686 - WHM X v3.1.0

Thanks in advance.

 

anyone? i need to get this fixed!