Re: System/Bios Time
On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Clive Menzies wrote:
> On (23/10/06 07:24), Ed Curtis wrote:
> > Just wondering if anyone can shed some light on this for me. Our system's
> > time has been off by about 30 minutes for the last month or so. When I run
> > ntpdate and set the time we would get some wierd things happening on the
> > system (i.e. Service unavailable in apache, etc.) I would have to move the
> > time forward at least the 30 minutes again to have the system act
> > normally.
> >
> > This morning at 5:31 I shutdown the server to look at the bios time and
> > date. It showed the correct date but the time was 10:04. I set it to the
> > correct time of 5:31 and rebooted. When I checked the server time after
> > the reboot it said 1:04 am with the correct date. I used ntpdate to update
> > and everything is running normally.
> >
> > Can anyone shed some light on to why the system/bios time would differ
> > like that or why running ntpdate and setting the correct time would
> > affect the server as mentioned above?
>
> Have you run tzconfig to check if your time zone is set correctly?
>
Yes. It is correctly set for America/New York.
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