Home / server / Questions / 321997
Accepted
John Gardeniers
Asked: 2011-10-17 14:25:50 +0800 CST

ntpdate ignores my timezone

  • 772

I'm trying to set up time sync on a CentOS 5.5 VDS but can't figure out why it won't update to the correct timezone. e.g. After manually setting the correct date and time when I run this:

date && ntpdate au.pool.ntp.org && date

I get this:

Mon Oct 17 08:58:48 EDT 2011
16 Oct 17:58:01 ntpdate[14659]: step time server 202.60.94.11 offset -54048.345159 sec
Sun Oct 16 17:58:01 EDT 2011

etc/localtime has been replaced with a link to the Australia/Melbourne timezone file and `/etc/sysconfig/clock' has been edited accordingly. The server has been rebooted since those changes and appears to (at long last) be using the correct timezone, so why does ntpdate appear to be ignoring it?

Incidentally, rdate simply times out and I've yet to determine why. I also have the ntpd service installed but have it disabled until I get this issue sorted out.

timezone time-synchronization ntpdate centos5

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    My Melbourne has EST-10EST,M10.1.0,M4.1.0/3. Yours is like the file for New_York.

    • 1

  2. I had a similar issue. I finally determined my /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Melbourne file was the same as New_York.

    Once I had changed it by copying a Australia Melbourne file from another server, all was fine with time again.

    Simple to just do the following to reinstall tzdata

    sudo yum reinstall tzdata

    Very annoying issue but all fixed after that.

    • 1

  3. on debian-based systems, run as root:

    dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

    And select your correct timezone.

    • 1