I have a fresh install of F17 that has some confusion about its timezone. The date displays as MDT (which is correct), but every time I boot the machine, it displays six hours ahead. Not coincidentally I'm sure, that is the offset between MDT and GMT, so what I'm seeing is correct GMT time but displayed with MDT timezone, so in reality it is off by six hours. I can reset the time with "ntpdate", and it works fine until the next reboot, at which point it's off by six hours again.
Obviously I've got something misconfigured but I can't figure out what. Anyone seen this before?
Thanks, --Greg
On Mon, 2012-06-04 at 10:28 -0600, Greg Woods wrote:
until the next reboot, at which point it's off by six hours again.
Tacky to answer myself, but I figured it out. I needed to run:
# hwclock --systohc
...to get the hardware clock updated. ntpdate only updates the system clock.
--Greg
On Mon, 2012-06-04 at 10:28 -0600, Greg Woods wrote:
I have a fresh install of F17 that has some confusion about its timezone. The date displays as MDT (which is correct), but every time I boot the machine, it displays six hours ahead. Not coincidentally I'm sure, that is the offset between MDT and GMT, so what I'm seeing is correct GMT time but displayed with MDT timezone, so in reality it is off by six hours. I can reset the time with "ntpdate", and it works fine until the next reboot, at which point it's off by six hours again.
Obviously I've got something misconfigured but I can't figure out what. Anyone seen this before?
Thanks, --Greg
Run: system-config-date and in the time zone screen check the UTC box.