[ale] NTP/Chrony time zone persistence

[Jim Kinney]

This was ages ago. pre esx6

I'm not running esx except as legacy. All VM hosting is Ovirt so I
can't test 

On Thu, 2016-09-15 at 12:09 -0400, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:
> On 9/15/2016 11:51 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > > > vague memory of vmware bug not passing the timezone on a time
request
> > to virtual hardware clock. Only solution was a start up script that
> > > > sets TZ on boot then does a time sync to an external source. Did
not
> > affect windows VMs but played hell on Linux VMs that expected the
> > hwclock to send good data.
> > If this is the case then it is either specific to CentOS 7 because
I'm
> running ESXi 6 with a dozen Ubuntu 14.04/16.04 and Debian 7/8/testing
> VMs and not a one has a problem holding time or it's timezone.
> 
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