Time sync is foobar

[John Pilkington]

On 16/08/11 12:21, Craig White wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 04:51 +1000, Roger wrote:
>>> sounds like one of them is set to use UTC and the other is not.
>>>
>>> on Fedora, run the command (as root)
>>>
>>> system-config-date
>>>
>>> check the tab 'Date and Time', verify the time server, under 'Advanced
>>> Options', you may want to uncheck the local time source
>>>
>>> check the tab called 'Time Zone', change the time zone to whatever it
>>> should be, check the option for 'system uses UTC clock'
>>>
>>> Craig
>>
>>
>> It's puzzling.
>> Ubuntu timezone is Melbourne Victoria and shows correct time and date
>> Fedora timezone is Melbourne Victoria and DateTime shows 4:27:40 seconds
>> and correct date.
>> Synchronise System Time is off for both installations

If you want your time synchronised why do you have this setting? 
Without it you just have two free-running clocks.

>> UTC is off in both systems.
>> PC system time is correct for Ubuntu.
>> Changing Fedora time and saving resets Ubuntu time to +10 hours
>> When I first noted this issue I fresh installed Fedora but problem
>> remains.
> ----
> If they are both NOT set to UTC time you should be able to leave things
> alone and they would work themselves out.
>
> Melbourne is definitely GMT + 10.00 hours
> http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/australia/victoria/melbourne/
>
> If things don't get fixed by leaving them alone, then one of them is
> still set to use UTC despite your declarations above.
>
> Craig
>