[100403] in RedHat Linux List
Odd time behavior??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Bayne)
Fri Nov 20 11:22:25 1998
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 08:19:29 -0800
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From: Sam Bayne <sbayne@nsccux.sccd.ctc.edu>
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One of my Linux boxes just started screwing up the time:
[root@nsccweb /root]# date
Fri Nov 20 07:54:57 PST 1998
[root@nsccweb /root]# date --utc
Fri Nov 20 07:55:00 UTC 1998
[root@nsccweb /root]# hwclock
Fri Nov 20 15:54:53 1998 -0.845380 seconds
[root@nsccweb /root]# hwclock --utc
Fri Nov 20 15:54:58 1998 -0.641831 seconds
I have checked, and both systems have bios clocks set to GM time.
Up until about last week both systems were keeping relatively correct time.
I hourly sync up their time with a time server but note:
[root@nsccweb /root]# rdate 134.39.2.106
[134.39.2.106] Fri Nov 20 16:02:25 1998
[sbayne@nsccpop sbayne]$ rdate 134.39.2.106
[134.39.2.106] Fri Nov 20 08:02:15 1998
Same time server, seconds apart, But nsccweb thinks it's 8 hours later.
It looks to me like nsccweb just stopped doing timezone conversions. All
times are actually UTC times, it just throws in the three letter code for
the appropriate timezone? I have copied the appropriate timezone file from
/usr/share/zoneinfo on nsccpop to nsccweb(long shot), but it didn't fix it.
Both are RedHat 5.0 with applicable security patches.
I didn't see any time HOW-TO's, so I'm reduced to doing man page
archeology. Does anyone know of a good resource on how time is dealt with
at a technical level in linux?
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Sam Bayne -NT,Novell,HP-UX,Linux Sysadmin
sbayne@nsccux.sccd.ctc.edu (206) 527-3762
North Seattle Community College/Computing Services
9600 College Way N/Seattle,WA 98133
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