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#1 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 06:07 PM

I have 2 linux VMs running under VM ware, one is RedHat 9, one is
Fedora

Both are set up to synchronise with a NTP server and both have the same
time zone.

The Redhat box is fine, however the Fedora box always seems to revert
to a time about 8 hours in advance.

Any idea why?

#2 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 06:07 PM

Loial wrote:
> I have 2 linux VMs running under VM ware, one is RedHat 9, one is
> Fedora
>
> Both are set up to synchronise with a NTP server and both have the
> same time zone.
>
> The Redhat box is fine, however the Fedora box always seems to revert
> to a time about 8 hours in advance.
>
> Any idea why?

What are the UTC settings, in the NTP setup tools? And when NTP starts at
boot time on RedHat based OS's, it looks in /etc/ntp/. for a list of targets
to set the time with at boot time. Why isn't that happening?

#3 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 06:07 PM

<<What are the UTC settings, in the NTP setup tools? And when NTP
starts at
boot time on RedHat based OS's, it looks in /etc/ntp/. for a list of
targets
to set the time with at boot time. Why isn't that happening? >>

Everything is the same on both guest linux VMs. I think it is VMWare
issue.

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> Loial wrote:
> > I have 2 linux VMs running under VM ware, one is RedHat 9, one is
> > Fedora
> >
> > Both are set up to synchronise with a NTP server and both have the
> > same time zone.
> >
> > The Redhat box is fine, however the Fedora box always seems to revert
> > to a time about 8 hours in advance.
> >
> > Any idea why?
>
> What are the UTC settings, in the NTP setup tools? And when NTP starts at
> boot time on RedHat based OS's, it looks in /etc/ntp/. for a list of targets
> to set the time with at boot time. Why isn't that happening?

#4 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 06:07 PM

On 23 Jun 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<1151052833.885460.70850@y41g2000cwy.googlegroups. com>, Loial wrote:

>I have 2 linux VMs running under VM ware, one is RedHat 9, one is
>Fedora

Are these the same box, or two different physical systems?

>Both are set up to synchronise with a NTP server and both have the same
>time zone.

On both systems, run

date -u
date
/sbin/hwclock -r

You should remember that NTP will not change the times if the error is
larger than a fairly small value.

>The Redhat box is fine, however the Fedora box always seems to revert
>to a time about 8 hours in advance.

"about" 8 hours? You are posting from the UK, and my timezone files say
that should be +01:00 (BST). 8 hours in advance of that would put you in
something in East Asia. The only non exact hour different zone in that
part of the world is Central Oz (+09:30). If that isn't the time
difference, your clock is simply to far out for NTP to set.

Old guy

#5 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 06:07 PM

"Loial" <admin@loial.co.uk> wrote in
news:1151052833.885460.70850@y41g2000cwy.googlegro ups.com:

> I have 2 linux VMs running under VM ware, one is RedHat 9, one is
> Fedora
>
> Both are set up to synchronise with a NTP server and both have the
> same time zone.
>
> The Redhat box is fine, however the Fedora box always seems to revert
> to a time about 8 hours in advance.
>
> Any idea why?
>

See if there's any correlation between when the machine is off and how
much time it loses. If they're the same, you probably need to replace
the CMOS battery - it's wouldn't have enough juice to keep the time
ticking over when the computers off - that happens when they die.

--
(setq (chuck nil) car(chuck) )

#6 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 06:07 PM

On 2006-06-23, Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld> wrote:
> On 23 Jun 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
> <1151052833.885460.70850@y41g2000cwy.googlegroups. com>, Loial wrote:
>> The Redhat box is fine, however the Fedora box always seems to revert
>> to a time about 8 hours in advance.

> "about" 8 hours? You are posting from the UK, and my timezone files say
> that should be +01:00 (BST). 8 hours in advance of that would put you in
> something in East Asia.

Perhaps it is not coincidental that the OP's message has a date given in
the -0700 time zone (western US?), which is 8 hour different from the
UK, although in the other direction.

--
Paul Kimoto
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#7 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 06:07 PM

On 23 Jun 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<slrne9p99m.o4r.kimoto@adore2.lightlink.com>, Paul Kimoto wrote:

>On 2006-06-23, Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld> wrote:

>> On 23 Jun 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
>> <1151052833.885460.70850@y41g2000cwy.googlegroups. com>, Loial wrote:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>>> The Redhat box is fine, however the Fedora box always seems to revert
>>> to a time about 8 hours in advance.

>> "about" 8 hours? You are posting from the UK, and my timezone files say
>> that should be +01:00 (BST). 8 hours in advance of that would put you in
>> something in East Asia.

>Perhaps it is not coincidental that the OP's message has a date given in
>the -0700 time zone (western US?), which is 8 hour different from the
>UK, although in the other direction.

Ah, you never noticed that a significant number of the messages posted have
that zonetime? When you post via google.groups, the "G2/0.2 User-Agent"
posts a lot of information (look _in_ the headers - try pressing the 't'
key in slrn while reading the article) and uses the local time in
Mountain View, California (about 27 miles / 43 KM Southeast of San
Francisco) as the posting time.

Old guy

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