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 -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list