On 3/20/07, Goodwin, Derric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Anyone else experience this problem? Could it have something to do with VM and how the guest is picking up its time on ipl?
Linux gets the hardware clock from the machine, which should be UTC. This is not influenced by the timezone you set on z/VM. So all you would need on Linux is the proper /etc/localtime for your local timezone. That should not change upon reboot unless you have managed to set your hardware clock other than UTC. Linux also expects its hardware clock to be UTC. There's an exception for dual-boot PC's that have to deal with that other OS that sets the hardware clock to the current local time. There's a flag in one of the config files that tells whether your hardware clock is UTC or local time. When I looked at this in the past, the "hardware clock" stuff in SuSE was broken such that it would cause a random offset for your Linux server when you specified the clock was not UTC. But obviously that dual-boot stuff does not apply to System z. Rob ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
