Date & Time in L Class

[sureshc]

In one of the L-Class server which we are having, the time is getting advanced by 3 to 4 hours every week. The time zone is set to IST-5:30.

We had implemented NTP pointing to one server which is running in Stratum III. Around 8 servers got synchronised with the Stratum III server. But the above said server is not getting synchronised and it exists from the ntp saying

Jun 24 20:12:22 alpha2 xntpd[885]: synchronized to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, stratum=4

Jun 24 20:12:22 alpha2 xntpd[885]: time error -2996.333657 is way too large (set
clock manually)

Would U please suggest a solution for the above said problem.

[CHRIS_ANORUO]

The Daylight time difference in you region should be taken into cognisance when doing a date set. It is better to set your date manually and monitor it.

[Patrick Wessel]

the question looks pretty much like this one: http://forums.itrc.hp.com:80/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0xbd657e990647d4118fee0090279cd0f9,00.html

Your problem is, that the time difference is more than 1000 seconds between the two server. In that case you have to set the time manualy

[CHRIS_ANORUO]

Patrick, the problem is that Sanjiv did not come back to award any mark to indicate if it solved his problem or not. HOW DO WE ADDRESS THESE ISSUES?!!!

[sureshc]

We had set the date and time Manually.. Still after one week the time is getting changed.

Also we do not have any day light saving.. Please inform us where it will be set.

with regards

C.Suresh

[CHRIS_ANORUO]

Patrick, the problem is that Sanjiv did not come back to award any mark to indicate if it solved his problem or not. HOW DO WE ADDRESS THESE ISSUES?!!!

[Philip Chan_1]

Suresh,

Does the time of your server being advanced gradually? if this is the case then you better ask HP to check the hardware.

Do you have any cron jobs under root that would touch the date time function?

Philip.

[Patrick Wessel]

Chris,
The quality of a forum depends always on the participants. I agree with you, that it's pretty helpful when the one who asked the question ranks the answers. But there is no way to 'force' them. It would be nice if they understand how important it is for others, if they provide feedback about the quality of the answers



Suresh,
Did you set the time manually and start the ntp after that? Did it run after you syncronized the time manually or did it fail with another error message?

[CHRIS_ANORUO]

Hi Sureshc,

Use the kernel parameter DST to set Daylight savings time policy, and TIMEZONE to set minutes West of Greenwich.

Cheers!