timeconfig - dumb question

Chuck chuck.carson at gmail.com
Thu Nov 1 18:28:43 UTC 2007


Yea this isn't a one-off type of problem that daylight time would affect,
the time was off by 7 hours. I wasn't worried about the daylight saving time
change just yet - the core time itself was wrong.

I found the problem however... thanks,
CC

On 11/1/07, Carville, Stephen <scarville at landam.com> wrote:
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> > Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 9:20 AM
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> > Subject: timeconfig - dumb question
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> > Im not sure if I have a hardware problem with this system or
> > not, because I
> > have never seen this problem before. (This is a Qsol
> > fileserver, so the
> > motherboard and etc.. are unknown to me)
> >
> > I have a fileserver where the time set in the BIOS is correct
> > for PST. (for
> > the purpose of this email the current BIOS time is 9:15 AM
> > PST, which is
> > correct)
> >
> > Under timeconfig I specify America/Los Angeles and uncheck
> > "Hardware Clock
> > Uses UTC" and reboot just to be sure.
> >
> > The system comes up and time is as follows:
> > charger:~ #date
> > Thu Nov  1 02:15:38 PDT 2007
> >
> > Under timeconfig, if I select the option "Hardware Clock Uses UTC" and
> > reboot, it comes up as follows:
> > charger:~ #date
> > Thu Nov  1 02:21:13 PDT 2007
> >
> > I have also played with various hwclock commands and for the
> > life of me
> > can't get this system to display time in local format. (PST)
>
> America/Los Angeles doesn't go back onto standard time until Sunday
> 11/04/2007.
>
> > Thanks for any help,
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