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

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 07:57:50AM -0500, Robert Spangler wrote:
> On Monday 16 February 2009 14:43, 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
> 
> I have my BIOS set for EST here are my outputs:
> 
> etc $ /bin/date
> Tue Feb 17 07:49:35 EST 2009
> 
> etc $ /sbin/hwclock
> Tue 17 Feb 2009 08:49:39 AM EST  -0.105039 seconds

Running both date and hwclock without any arguments is supposed to
show the current local time.  So then why is the output of your
hwclock an hour fast?

Walt

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