On 4/14/07, Ashley M. Kirchner <ashley@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I installed CentOS 5 on a server today (wiping clean the drive which
had 4.4 on it). During installation I picked the correct timezone,
location and all. Yet, upon booting the machine, it seems to think that
it's 6 hours earlier than it really is.
One to add to the Gotchas and should have been in the README (sorry)
The problem is that upstream and thus CentOS defaults to thinking your
system clock is set to UTC (for some gosh-darn reason after years of
not having this as a default.. upstream decided to go back to it..
# /etc/sysconfig/clock
# The ZONE parameter is only evaluated by system-config-date.
# The timezone of the system is defined by the contents of /etc/localtime.
ZONE="America/Denver"
UTC=true
ARC=false
change UTC=true to UTC=false
The BIOS has the correct time and date on it.
/etc/locatime was originally what /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Denver
would've been. I removed it and symlinked it instead thinking it might
change things - it didn't.
Right now, 'date' tells me:
[1] 13:21:12 <root@bigbertha:~> date
Sat Apr 14 13:21:13 MDT 2007
But it's actually 19:21...
So, uh, what's going on? Why is the time so off? Under CentOS 4,
the time was just fine. Something happened in 5.
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