[ale] NTP/Chrony time zone persistence

DJ-Pfulio djpfulio at jdpfu.com
Tue Sep 13 16:19:33 EDT 2016


tzselect ? That's how I'd do it on Ubuntu. Then set my personal TZ in ~/.login
or ~/.bashrc
   export TZ=America/New_York

This probably isn't how they do it on Cent.

On 09/13/2016 03:31 PM, Edward O. Holcroft wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a Samba server in an AD environment, so time sync with the DC is
> important for autentication. I have this working fine on many physical servers,
> but recently added a virtual CentOS 7 box on ESXi6, and cannot get it to stick.
> 
> First I used NTP, which works immediately when run, but has no persistence
> through reboots. Then I read that CentOS7 uses chrony, so I changed, but still,
> after reboot, the client machine is reset to UTC, which it gets from the ESXi
> host, as it should.
> 
> I tried setting the ESXi host to point to the local DC for time, but that made
> no difference to the time zone.
> 
> Any ideas on how to force time zone persistence? Other than a cron job?
> 
> ed
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