centos 6.8 - time - digital ocean..

[bruce]

Hey guys.

I know most of the questions are fed based.. but I've got a centos 6.8
from digital ocean testing..

So, bear with me..

In setting up the instance to use EST I did the following steps. Is
there anything else I missed...

Change the date/time (as root)
  rm -rf /etc/localtime
  ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York /etc/localtime

##--set the date to the correct date
  date -s 'actual/current date'

vi /etc/sysconfig/clock

ZONE="America/New_York"
  UTC=false
  ARC=false

I then rebooted, checked that the date cmd displayed the correct date...

I'm asking ,as I created a base instance of a Centos 6.8 image..

Digitalocean allows for the generation of "snapshots"/copies. The
copies can then be used to generate a clone of the initial
instance/droplet.

I did all of that, and lo/behold, when I run the date cmd..

I get
# date
Sat Nov 19 21:45:43 EST 2016 <<< (note the 5 hr ahead diff.. which if
i recall is the UTC time)

Instead of
# date
Sat Nov 19 16:45:43 EST 2016

Thanks for the sanity check!

[Samuel Sieb]

On 11/19/2016 02:10 PM, bruce wrote:
> I did all of that, and lo/behold, when I run the date cmd..
>
> I get
> # date
> Sat Nov 19 21:45:43 EST 2016 <<< (note the 5 hr ahead diff.. which if
> i recall is the UTC time)
>
> Instead of
> # date
> Sat Nov 19 16:45:43 EST 2016

Maybe you want UTC=true.  The VM might be providing the RTC as UTC.

[bruce]

Oh.

My bad for got to mention that I tested UTC=false and true no diff.

Thanks

On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 7:47 PM, Samuel Sieb  wrote:
> On 11/19/2016 02:10 PM, bruce wrote:
> > I did all of that, and lo/behold, when I run the date cmd..
> >
> > I get
> > # date
> > Sat Nov 19 21:45:43 EST 2016 <<< (note the 5 hr ahead diff.. which if
> > i recall is the UTC time)
> >
> > Instead of
> > # date
> > Sat Nov 19 16:45:43 EST 2016
>
> Maybe you want UTC=true.  The VM might be providing the RTC as UTC.
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