I installed CentOS 5 on a server today (wiping clean the drive which
had 4.4 on it). During installation I picked the correct timezone,
location and all. Yet, upon booting the machine, it seems to think that
it's 6 hours earlier than it really is.
The BIOS has the correct time and date on it.
/etc/locatime was originally what /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Denver
would've been. I removed it and symlinked it instead thinking it might
change things - it didn't.
Right now, 'date' tells me:
[1] 13:21:12 <root at bigbertha:~> date
Sat Apr 14 13:21:13 MDT 2007
But it's actually 19:21...
So, uh, what's going on? Why is the time so off? Under CentOS 4,
the time was just fine. Something happened in 5.
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Ashley M. Kirchner <mailto:ashley at pcraft.com> . 303.442.6410 x130
IT Director / SysAdmin / Websmith . 800.441.3873 x130
Photo Craft Imaging . 3550 Arapahoe Ave. #6
http://www.pcraft.com ..... . . . Boulder, CO 80303, U.S.A.
On 4/14/07, Ashley M. Kirchner <ashley at pcraft.com> wrote:> > I installed CentOS 5 on a server today (wiping clean the drive which > had 4.4 on it). During installation I picked the correct timezone, > location and all. Yet, upon booting the machine, it seems to think that > it's 6 hours earlier than it really is. >One to add to the Gotchas and should have been in the README (sorry) The problem is that upstream and thus CentOS defaults to thinking your system clock is set to UTC (for some gosh-darn reason after years of not having this as a default.. upstream decided to go back to it.. # /etc/sysconfig/clock # The ZONE parameter is only evaluated by system-config-date. # The timezone of the system is defined by the contents of /etc/localtime. ZONE="America/Denver" UTC=true ARC=false change UTC=true to UTC=false> The BIOS has the correct time and date on it. > > /etc/locatime was originally what /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Denver > would've been. I removed it and symlinked it instead thinking it might > change things - it didn't. > > Right now, 'date' tells me: > > [1] 13:21:12 <root at bigbertha:~> date > Sat Apr 14 13:21:13 MDT 2007 > > But it's actually 19:21... > > So, uh, what's going on? Why is the time so off? Under CentOS 4, > the time was just fine. Something happened in 5. > > -- > H | It's not a bug - it's an undocumented feature. > +-------------------------------------------------------------------- > Ashley M. Kirchner <mailto:ashley at pcraft.com> . 303.442.6410 x130 > IT Director / SysAdmin / Websmith . 800.441.3873 x130 > Photo Craft Imaging . 3550 Arapahoe Ave. #6 > http://www.pcraft.com ..... . . . Boulder, CO 80303, U.S.A. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >-- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 07:21:11PM -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:> I installed CentOS 5 on a server today (wiping clean the drive which > had 4.4 on it). During installation I picked the correct timezone, > location and all. Yet, upon booting the machine, it seems to think that > it's 6 hours earlier than it really is. > > The BIOS has the correct time and date on it. > > /etc/locatime was originally what /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Denver > would've been. I removed it and symlinked it instead thinking it might > change things - it didn't. > > Right now, 'date' tells me: > > [1] 13:21:12 <root at bigbertha:~> date > Sat Apr 14 13:21:13 MDT 2007 > > But it's actually 19:21... > > So, uh, what's going on? Why is the time so off? Under CentOS 4, > the time was just fine. Something happened in 5.It seems like you selected "BIOS time is UTC", or something like it. Change UTC to false on /etc/sysconfig/clock, set the clock manually (with "date"), then write to bios (hwclock --systohc). []s - -- Rodrigo Barbosa "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGIa/qpdyWzQ5b5ckRAl9EAJ9BvdFO/TRmp9aLqGp1wqd3SIhhBwCghWf3 JNU9PHTrIVTk4CU0vN7DReo=tc8M -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----