Is an ntpdate correction atomic?
Peter Woo asked: I’ve got the following in /var/log/syslog, from yesterday (July 30th) Dec 16 22:54:05 omap ntpdate[432]: step time server 91.189.94.4 offset 12052648.821465 sec ntpdate 91.189.94.4...
View Articledate: cannot set date: Operation not permitted
Quentin McLoad asked: I have received an interesting problem during I tried to set my Server time either with NTD or manually using date command. First of all I have tried to use NTD. I have...
View ArticleServer timezone changed to PHT but logs still written in MST?
Peter Snow asked: A couple of days ago, I updated the timezone on an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server using $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata. Today I noticed while tailing the mail log, that the times were still...
View ArticleWhy is there a difference with Unix date between 2 and 3 months
Shirker asked: How is this possible and how do I deal with it? I’m making backup script that is dependent on Unix date and have discovered an interesting bug: [root@web000c zfs_test]# date +%y-%m-%d...
View ArticleDocker Container time & timezone (will not reflect changes)
Chockomonkey asked: Where do Docker containers get their time information? I’ve created some containers from the basic ubuntu:trusty image, and when I run it and request ‘date’, I get UTC time. For...
View ArticleSystem clock always resyncs after setting it
Kimberly W asked: I’m setting the system clock using the following command: date -s "31 DEC 2015 12:00:00" Immediately after executing I run just date and see that the date and time is December 31...
View ArticleLinux screen(or java) with different date of system
FabioZumbi12 asked: I having a problem with screen on Centos 7. The system time is correct but on screen application theres a diference of 3 hours. The system output(correct): [root@Server ~]# date...
View ArticleLinux Script to Solaris
codeman asked: Hellooo! I have the following sentence, that works on Linux, but not in Solaris Version. YEAR=2019 echo $(expr '(' $(date -d $YEAR/9/30 +%s) - $(date +%s) + 86399 ')' / 86400) " days...
View ArticleRedhat Enterprise Linux 7: How to disable DST – Daylight Saving Time
King David asked: We have 16 Linux RHEL 7.5 servers in a cluster and servers are sync with crony service to NTP server We have two questions How to know if DST is configured on our servers? How to...
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