On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Roberto Ragusa <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Anoop wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> Whenever I reboot my Fedora 10 machine, the system time jumps to >> current time + 05:30. Looks time it is jumping by timezone offset IST >> (GMT+ 5:30). The hardware clock has the correct time after reboot >> though. I am not using the UTC clock option. >> Link '/etc/localtime' points to the correct timezone file and file >> /etc/sysconfig/clock also contains the correct timezone. >> >> Any ideas, what might have gone wrong? > > What do you mean by system time? > I mean, what is displayed in GNOME/KDE applets or what you see > with "date" or what... > > Check (some things, you have already done...) the output of > > date > date -u > hwclock > hwclock -u > > then have a look at > > /etc/localtime This was a soft link to '/usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Kolkata' on my machine. Then I looked on another machine (Fedora 9), there '/etc/localtime' was itself the 'Kolkota' time zone file. I copied /etc/localtime from fedora 9 to my machine and it worked. I am still not sure what was the issue though. Thanks, Anoop > /etc/sysconfig/clock > /etc/adjtime > > check if you have a TZ variable involved with > > echo $TZ > > and, are you running ntpd? > > /etc/init.d/ntpd status > > if yes, what does it say when you do > > ntpq -p > > These problems are often caused by something wrong in one place > and "fixing" it in the wrong one is very easy. > > Please consider switching to UTC for your hardware clock. It is > better (I know, if you also boot Windows you can't). > > I adventurously guess that you have a wrong timezone setting somewhere > and running ntpdate on boot. > > Best regards. > -- > Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
