Re: Time on server jumps ahead

[John Ketchum <johnk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On boot, Linux sets its system clock from the hardware clock.  Linux can 
interpret the time on the hardware clock as local time or universal 
time.  If this is set incorrectly, you can get the problem you are talking 
about.  see
man hwclock
At 10:12 AM 7/21/2003 +0200, Jason Dale wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have noticed that no matter how many times I reset the
> date and time on my RH8 server, it keeps falling out of
> synch, and jumps ahead by about 1 hour. It looks like it
> has something to do with the time zone, but during the
> installation I made sure to choose the correct country and
> location.
>
> 1) How do I configure my RH8 machine to synch itself
>     according to an atomic clock on the WWW?
>
> 2) How do you change the time zone on a Linux server
>     (AFTER the installation)
>
> Thanks, Jason
>
>
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