Bug 195748 - Timezone out of sync in Kickstarted machines
Summary: Timezone out of sync in Kickstarted machines
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Satellite 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: Provisioning
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mike McCune
QA Contact: Beth Nackashi
URL: https://rhn.webqa.redhat.com/rhn/kick...
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Blocks: 198508
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-06-17 00:24 UTC by Partha Aji
Modified: 2007-10-30 02:00 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2007-04-10 17:18:00 UTC
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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.


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