Re: timezone confusion (new F17 install)

2012-06-04 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Mon, 2012-06-04 at 10:28 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: > I have a fresh install of F17 that has some confusion about its > timezone. The date displays as MDT (which is correct), but every time I > boot the machine, it displays six hours ahead. Not coincidentally I'm > sure, that is the offset betwee

Re: timezone confusion (new F17 install)

2012-06-04 Thread Greg Woods
On Mon, 2012-06-04 at 10:28 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: > until the next reboot, at which point it's off by six hours again. Tacky to answer myself, but I figured it out. I needed to run: # hwclock --systohc ...to get the hardware clock updated. ntpdate only updates the system clock. --Greg --

timezone confusion (new F17 install)

2012-06-04 Thread Greg Woods
I have a fresh install of F17 that has some confusion about its timezone. The date displays as MDT (which is correct), but every time I boot the machine, it displays six hours ahead. Not coincidentally I'm sure, that is the offset between MDT and GMT, so what I'm seeing is correct GMT time but disp