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On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 07:21:11PM -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner 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.
>
> 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.
It seems like you selected "BIOS time is UTC", or something like it.
Change UTC to false on /etc/sysconfig/clock, set the clock manually
(with "date"), then write to bios (hwclock --systohc).
[]s
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Rodrigo Barbosa
"Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur"
"Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)
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