Bug 195748

Summary: Timezone out of sync in Kickstarted machines
Product: Red Hat Satellite 5 Reporter: Partha Aji <paji>
Component: ProvisioningAssignee: Mike McCune <mmccune>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Beth Nackashi <bnackash>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: rhn-bugs, shughes
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URL: https://rhn.webqa.redhat.com/rhn/kickstart/Locale.do?ksid=1420
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Description Partha Aji 2006-06-17 00:24:25 UTC 
The timezones are out of sync on kickstarted machines

Prereqs: 
Knowledge of hos to kicktstart thorugh the Web UI
A User X with a bunch of kickstart profiles + systems ready to be kickstarted

1) Login as X
2) Systems -> Kickstart -> Profiles
3) From the list select a KS profile
4) System Details -> Locales, 
5) Select a time zone -> Asia/Novobirsk .. 
6) Select 'Hardware Clock uses UTC'
7) Select Update Locate preferences.
8) Using this profile Kickstart a system (by scheduling & using rhn_check)
9) After the system has been kickstarted successfully .. SSh to the system and
on the command line type 
% date
note down the sync time
Compare that with http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=375
Notice they are totally out of sync....
Comment 1 Mike McCune 2007-04-10 17:18:00 UTC 
closing due to inactivity and low priority.