Actually it is working now, thank you all! [root at preferans afarber]# cat /etc/sysconfig/clock ZONE="Europe/Berlin" [root at preferans afarber]# /etc/init.d/ntpd status ntpd (pid 1365) is running... [root at preferans afarber]# /sbin/hwclock Tue 04 Oct 2011 07:10:06 PM CEST -0.797338 seconds [root at preferans afarber]# date Tue Oct 4 19:10:09 CEST 2011