From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: I cannot set the time on any clock on my computer and have it "stick". Every time the computer is rebooted, something sets the time to 4 hours earlier. If I set the clock in the system BIOS at boot, by the time I login, the system rtc and hwclock are 4 hours behind. If I set the time using date, or hwclock --set, hwclock --systohc, timeconfig, or redhat-config-time, it doesnt keep. Upon reboot, it is 4 hours behind. If I do nothing but reboot again, I loose another 4 hours, and so on, and so on..... My timzone is EDT, is this a coincidence? EDT is 4 hours behind UTC. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): initscripts-7.14-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.set time (any method) 2.reboot 3.check time Actual Results: time is 4 hours behind Expected Results: Time should be correct. The system should not continually adjust 4 hours off of the correct time. Additional info: Am I nuts? I have to believe I am missing something obvious, and if that is the case, I apologize. I have spent 2 days searching for info on setting the time on a linux system, and nothing I've found works. I have setup many linux machines, servers and workstations, since RedHat 4 and never had any problem quite like this. I am setting the serverity to security because an incorrect clock has all kinds of security issues for me. Feel free to change it if you see fit.
What does your /etc/sysconfig/clock say? What is /etc/localtime?
/etc/localtime is a link to -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Detroit and /etc/sysconfig/clock is ZONE="America/Detroit" UTC=false ARC=false
Is /usr a separate filesystem? If so, make sure /etc/localtime is a copy, and not a symlink.
You ought to put this on the RHCE exam :) That fixed it. The obvoius question, why does a link get made to a filesystem not availabe when the system syncs the clocks? If it matters, I upgraded from RH8, but I think that was a clean install. If not, 7.3 before that was the clean install. I don't think I could have copied an old localtime from anywhere. AFAIK, this is the result of just regular installation/upgrade and setting the time with the provided tools. I'd be happy to provide more info if this seems to be some rare condition on my system. Anyway, thank you very much. I can start growing my hair back.
It's a bug in redhat-config-date, I believe.
This is a dupe of bug #91228. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 91228 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.