Re: Time Differences

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From: Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:44:40 +1000
Subject: Re: Time Differences

On 20Jun2007 14:22, Glenn <glenn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| I'm trying to figure out why different applications display
different times | on my fully-patched RHEL 4 server. Assume the
time at the console is 10:00. | If I log in remotely using PuTTy,
the date command shows the time is 10:00. | If I create a text file,
it also shows it was created at 10:00. If I connect | via FTP
using the same user name and list the text file, the creation time |
shows 15:00. In fact, all the file times are five hours later in
the FTP | window than they are in the PuTTy window. There is
another application, a | print server, that shows all times an hour
different from the console time. | Any idea why the differences, or
how to fix them? Thanks. -Glenn.

Your FTP server is not running in your personal default local time.

The underlying system (kernel and on-disc filesystem structures) record
time in seconds since midnight 01jan1970 GMT, and the default time
rendering converts to your local timezone for display purposes.

This is controlled by an envionment variable $TZ on a per-process
basis, and otherwise by a system file with a default is $TZ is not specially
set.

Probably the login process sets $TZ for you and the system default is
not set up.

Try running the system-config-time command from a root shell.
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Thanks for the ideas! I had already configured the system time, and it turns
out that the print server problem affected only one user, indicating a
problem with the time on the user's PC. This narrowed it down to the FTP
server, and I discovered that vsftpd defaults to GMT. I corrected this by
adding "use_localtim=YES" at the bottom of the config
file, /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf , and restarting vsftpd. Thanks again. -G.

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