Has this machine be rebooted since the timezone and time was set? You need to ensure that the machine knows that BIOS clock is storing GMT, and ensure that after the real time set that you clear any offsets/calibrations and set the current time into the BIOS clock.
This page has as suggested sequence with commands: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/tips/time.html Simon On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 10:13:12AM -0700, Martin Glazer wrote: > Hi, > > I have this problem with one of my servers - the time is out by exactly 8 1/2 > hours. > > The system is running ntp and getting it's time from my internal ntp server - > the time on this server is correct. > according to ntpq, the servers are in sync. > > I have checked the time zone for both of them and they are the same - > US/Mountain and /etc/localtime is a link to /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Mountain > I have also checked and UTC is set to false. > > The only other difference I have noticed is that the hardware clock is set to > exactly the same time as the system time (on the bad server) whereas the > hardware clock on the good ntp server is 1 hour off (which is to be expected > due to daylight savings). > > Anyone come across this before? > Anyone have any other suggestions where to look for a solution? > > Thanks > > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
