[TriLUG] redhat & daylight savings time
Joseph Tate
jtate at dragonstrider.com
Tue Oct 29 10:45:02 EST 2002
Run timeconfig, set the time zone to est5edt. Viola
Thomas C. Meggs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have several Redhat 7.x boxes which decided they didn't want to fall
> back on Sunday. Does anyone have any ideas about what I can do to make
> sure that they update their clocks in the future? Even on a couple
> that were running ntpd, the time stayed precise, but was still an hour
> off.
>
> I found a note in the RedHat 5.1 documentation mentioning that if the
> hardware clock isn't set to GMT, it wouldn't update. From an initial
> investigation this may still be true, but I couldn't dig up any
> mention of that still being the case under newer releases.
>
> Any pointers / suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Tom
>
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