[ale] NTP/Chrony time zone persistence

[Scott M. Jones]

What is the output of:

hwclock;date

If this is a virtual, I presume the hwclock time is coming from the host OS?

> On Sep 13, 2016, at 9:30 PM, Edward O. Holcroft <eholcroft at mkainc.com> wrote:
> 
> I have used this command to set the timezone (in this case Pacific), but it does not persist across reboots. Even with ntpd/chrony in place pointing to an NTP server in the same TZ.
> 
> If I run ntpdate it fixes the issue immediately and my AD authentication works ... until next reboot and it's back on UTC.
> 
> I only have this issue on the VM. Same setup on 20 other physical server works as advertised.
> 
> ed
> 
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>> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 7:57 PM, Scott M. Jones <eff at dragoncon.org> wrote:
>> Are you using timedatectl?  Welcome to the systemd way of doing things...
>> 
>> timedatectl list-timezones
>> timedatectl set-timezone [TIMEZONE]
>> 
>> https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/timedatectl.html
>> 
>> On 9/13/16 3:31 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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