-----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-----