[K12OSN] kinit: clock skew too great

[Nils Breunese]

Terrell Prudé Jr. wrote:

> Have you done your yum updates?  Have you also checked out that  
> you're using the new timezone info?  I know, possibly stupid  
> questions, but even on our network, I found a few stragglers last  
> week.
>
> The following is pure conjecture.  If both servers are reading the  
> same time, but they're using different timezone info, that might be  
> an issue, since UNIX time is always with respect to UTC (same as  
> GMT).  That is, the timezone info that you pointed to during your  
> installation (e. g. EST5EDT) simply tweaks the *real* system date/ 
> time setting to display to you, the human.  However, the system  
> itself is running on UTC.  I'm not sure if this is the problem, but  
> that's what I'd check first.

It depends, during installation you get to choose whether you want to  
set your system clock to UTC or not.

Nils Breunese.
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