Problem Adjusting the System Time

[Andrew Kaplan]

Hi there --

I am trying to adjust the system time on a Red Hat Fedora Core 2 system to reflect the timezone that it is in rather than UTC. The timezone in question is America/NewYork.

I have gone through the motions of adjusting the time via the GUI interface as well as through the setup menu and also making sure that the UTC option in both instances is NOT checked. The system runs ntp and I have confirmed that the /etc/ntp.conf as well as the /etc/ntp/ntpservers and /etc/ntp/step-tickers files have the appropriate server information in them. When I run the ntpq -p command, the output shows the system being in synch with the timeservers.

The problem is the following: Whenever I run the date command, the output reads a time that is inconsistent with the localtime, and it also has UTC as part of its output. The clock on the desktop menubar also shows the incorrect time.

I ran the hwclock command without any success, and even after I rebooted the system, went into the BIOS and modified the system clock to reflect the correct time, the problem was not resolved.

Has anyone seen this, and can tell me what else I need to do? Thanks.

[Danny Petterson - DK]

Im no expert on this issue, but have you tried to change the timezone with the GUI called

system-config-date

if it is avalable on your system?

There is also this bug that might be related:

http://aplawrence.com/Linux/fedora-time.html