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Lorin Hochstein
Asked: 2013-02-15 13:53:58 +0800 CST

kern.log reports times in UTC instead of local time zone

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I attempted to set my local timezone to America/New_York by doing (as root):

# cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York /etc/localtime
# echo "America/New_York" > /etc/timezone
# dpkg-reconfigure --frontend noninteractive tzdata

The "date" program reports the right time zone:

$ date 
Thu Feb 14 16:51:28 EST 2013

However, /var/log/kern.log is still reporting times in UTC, e.g.:

Feb 14 21:38:28 newyork kernel: [39716989.760755]  xvdf: unknown partition table

Do I need to reboot to fix this? or is there something else I need to change?

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You don't have to reboot, just make sure to restart cron and rsyslog so they pick up the new timezone.

    sudo service cron restart
sudo service rsyslog restart
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