[CentOS] Time 1 hour out
John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Thu Mar 29 22:45:15 UTC 2007
Andy Wright wrote:
> Good afternoon - see, I told you the time was out ;-)
>
> It's the system time that's an hour out - the hardware clock was set to
> the correct local time (I'd done this manually earlier).
>
> Here's what I've tried -
>
> stop ntpd and chkconfig it off
>
> used date -s to set correct local time
> used clock -w to write to hardware clock
>
> reboot (just in case !)
>
> date and clock now both report the correct local time
>
> start ntpd
>
> clock is still correct, but date has gone back an hour
>
> Confused !
>
> Andy.
>
>>
>>
>> Good morning, Andy
>>
>> Use /sbin/clock to check the time on your system's hardware clock.
>> ntp and date will change the time on your OS but not necessarily on
>> your hardware.
>>
>> You can change the hardware clock by using the date command to change
>> the time and then typing "/sbin/clock -w" to write the time to hardware.
Some, but not all, of my systems (not particularly CentOS) didn't handle
comming off DST here at all well.
I fixed them by stopping ntp, running
ntpdate pool.net.org
hwclock -w
then restarting ntp.
and finally, by hoping all this is sorted out by next time:-)
--
Cheers
John
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