Re: cannot change time on Fedora

On 23 Jun 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<1151052833.885460.70850@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Loial wrote:

I have 2 linux VMs running under VM ware, one is RedHat 9, one is
Fedora

Are these the same box, or two different physical systems?

Both are set up to synchronise with a NTP server and both have the same
time zone.

On both systems, run

date -u
date
/sbin/hwclock -r

You should remember that NTP will not change the times if the error is
larger than a fairly small value.

The Redhat box is fine, however the Fedora box always seems to revert
to a time about 8 hours in advance.

"about" 8 hours? You are posting from the UK, and my timezone files say
that should be +01:00 (BST). 8 hours in advance of that would put you in
something in East Asia. The only non exact hour different zone in that
part of the world is Central Oz (+09:30). If that isn't the time
difference, your clock is simply to far out for NTP to set.

Old guy
.

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