Fw: Time zone Update Suse 8.1 SURPRIZE SURPRIZE

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu (Dan Ritter)]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 03:27:53PM -0400, stephen goldman wrote:
> Hello Dan,
>    Thanks for your time-
> 
> The host info is below and is still an hour off.          it is a client of 
> the NTP server
> Thu Mar 22 13:57:04 UTC 2007

The NTP server does not enter into this. All NTP servers talk
UTC all the time. Any conversion to local time zone occurs
elsewhere.

> The clock appears to be reading UTC, but the config stays localtime. This 
> machine (www) is a client of (overlord).
> 
> THIS  IS WWW
> 
> Thu Mar 22 13:57:04 UTC 2007
> 
> www:/etc/sysconfig # more clock
> #
> # Set to "-u" if your system clock is set to UTC, and to "--localtime"
> # if your clock runs that way.
> #
> HWCLOCK="--localtime"
> #HWCLOCK="utc"

Change that. The HWCLOCK should be UTC.

> TIMEZONE="America/New_York"
> #TIMEZONE="US/Eastern"
> DEFAULT_TIMEZONE="America/New_York"
> #DEFAULT_TIMEZONE="US/Pacific"

Good.

> www:/etc/sysconfig # cd /
> www:/ # zdump -v America/New_York | grep 2007
> America/New_York  Sun Mar 11 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 
> EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000
> America/New_York  Sun Mar 11 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007 
> EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
> America/New_York  Sun Nov  4 05:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:59:59 2007 
> EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
> America/New_York  Sun Nov  4 06:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:00:00 2007 
> EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000

Good. Now, did you run "/etc/init.d/boot.clock start"? As root?

> THIS IS OVERLORD
> 
> {This is the time server: Host overlord }

Still doesn't enter into it, although you will want to make the
same changes.

-dsr-

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