timezone confusion (new F17 install)

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Mon Jun 4 20:56:44 UTC 2012


On Mon, 2012-06-04 at 10:28 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: 
> I have a fresh install of F17 that has some confusion about its
> timezone. The date displays as MDT (which is correct), but every time I
> boot the machine, it displays six hours ahead. Not coincidentally I'm
> sure, that is the offset between MDT and GMT, so what I'm seeing is
> correct GMT time but displayed with MDT timezone, so in reality it is
> off by six hours. I can reset the time with "ntpdate", and it works fine
> until the next reboot, at which point it's off by six hours again.
> 
> Obviously I've got something misconfigured but I can't figure out what.
> Anyone seen this before?
> 
> Thanks,
> --Greg
> 
> 
> 

Run: system-config-date
and in the time zone screen check the UTC box.
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