brent timothy saner on 16 Feb 2009 13:00:47 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] time is off (exactly 5 hours)


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Ron Kaye wrote:
> 
> have a linux issue.
> RHEL 5 server (ESX host vm)-  time is set correctly in bios, ntp.conf is
> configured with our windows time servers (correct time), ntpd is running.
> my time is 5 hours off. (shows 9am, not 2pm)
> #date           shows 9am when it is 2pm
> #hwclock    shows 9am when it is 2pm
> 
> build cd came from UK
> wondering if GMT is somewhere overriding my EST

this is exactly what's happening.

I'm not sure how RHEL manages timezone info (i think via sysconfig), but
in gentoo you can simply cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/<TIMEZONE>
/etc/localtime to set the timezone.
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