[CentOS] timezone "Europe/London" ntpdate

Thu May 7 20:43:58 UTC 2009
Yuri Timofeev <tim4dev at gmail.com>

Hi

CentOS 5.3 with latest updates.

I have a problem with the time zone on dedicated server.
I had to setup the timezone using system-config-date to
"Europe/London" and "System clock uses UTC" == checked

# date; date -u; hwclock --show; hwclock --show --utc; zdump /etc/localtime
Thu May  7 21:29:47 GMT 2009
Thu May  7 21:29:47 UTC 2009
Thu 07 May 2009 09:29:48 PM GMT  -0.411568 seconds
Thu 07 May 2009 09:29:49 PM GMT  -0.997482 seconds
/etc/localtime  Thu May  7 21:29:48 2009 GMT

# cat /etc/sysconfig/clock
ZONE="Europe/London"
UTC=true
ARC=false

# cat /etc/adjtime
-3525.635197 1241730131 0.000000
1241730131
UTC

# strings /etc/localtime
TZif2
TZif2
GMT0

# ntpdate -q 0.centos.pool.ntp.org
 7 May 21:14:51 ntpdate[12689]: step time server 195.42.115.77 offset
-3638.766689 sec

Why -3638 sec ?

thanks.


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