What do your systems say is the current UTC? Could somebody have somehow
changed the hardware TOD clock (POR generally) and now _it_ is messed up?
And that would mess up all the guests.


On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Veencamp, Jonathon D. <
[email protected]> wrote:

> We found a typo in our ZVM system config.  So VM was still showing CDT
> rather than CST, and evidently that affected Linux as well (even though
> Linux was pulling the UTC time from hardware?!? )
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Gregg Levine
> Sent: Monday, November 04, 2013 9:55 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Daylight savings time issue
>
> Hello!
> Jonathon DST (Daylight Savings Time) ended yesterday at 2AM. And we
> all were supposed to set our clocks back an hour over the Saturday
> night.
>
> How Linux does keep time has been addressed, but I am more curious as
> to why your ZVM is still showing CDT when it also should be showing
> CST.
> -----
> Gregg C Levine [email protected]
> "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Veencamp, Jonathon D.
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > ZVM is showing CDT, Linux is showing CST.  (so the clock is an hour off)
> >
> > We use SUSE Linux.  Yast2 timezone shows hardware clock set to UTC, and
> our timezone as Central Time (Chicago).
> >
> > It's like Linux isn't correctly recognizing that Daylight Savings began
> yesterday.  If I change the timezone to Eastern Time, then the local time
> on Linux is displayed correctly.  But that's a workaround and not the
> correct fix.  Still, everything has been working as intended for years, so
> I'm confused why this is suddenly an issue this IPL.
> >
> > Jon
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Davis, Larry (National VM Capability)
> > Sent: Monday, November 04, 2013 7:18 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: Daylight savings time issue
> >
> > Shouldn't it be CST Now and if Operations adjusted the clock at IPL time
> then VM is correct by Operator intervention.
> > When you installed Linux did you tell it to use GMT and apply its own
> offset or use the Local time?
> > One answer I believe uses the hardware clock and the other uses the
> VMDBK clock for the guest, could be wrong though
> >
> >
> >
> > Larry Davis,
> > VM Capability
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Veencamp, Jonathon D.
> > Sent: Monday, November 04, 2013 8:12 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Daylight savings time issue
> >
> > Good morning list,
> >
> >
> >
> > Does anyone have any quick advice?  We are in Minnesota and have just
> switched to Daylight Savings.    Someone IPL'd ZVM differently yesterday
> than on past IPL's.  (TOD clock question answered yes).  Now we are seeing
> the correct time in CMS in zVM (I think) but Linux is not showing daylight
> savings.
> >
> >
> >
> > ZVM
> >
> > query timezone
> >
> > Zone  Direction   Offset   Status
> >
> > UTC     ----     00.00.00  Inactive
> >
> > GMT     ----     00.00.00  Inactive
> >
> > EDT     West     04.00.00  Inactive
> >
> > EST     West     05.00.00  Inactive
> >
> > CDT     West     05.00.00  Active
> >
> > CST     West     06.00.00  Inactive
> >
> > MDT     West     06.00.00  Inactive
> >
> > MST     West     07.00.00  Inactive
> >
> > PDT     West     07.00.00  Inactive
> >
> > PST     West     08.00.00  Inactive
> >
> > Ready; T=0.01/0.01 07:05:22     <-- This is correct.
> >
> >
> >
> > zLinux
> >
> > # date
> >
> > Mon Nov  4 06:05:35 CST 2013    <-- So CST is the issue.
> >
> >
> >
> > I verified that /etc/timezone is set to the same as
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago.  Our TZ environmental variable is not
> set.
> >
> >
> >
> > Any advice?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jon Veencamp
> >
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This is clearly another case of too many mad scientists, and not enough
hunchbacks.

Maranatha! <><
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