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I've been trawling google for ages on this but nothing works. I'm in the uk, I'm running a vps as root and the system clock is one hour behind and I can't work out how to correct this. I ran tzselect and selected europe/britain, I also ran ntpdate but I got:
Code:
11 Jul 16:25:08 ntpdate[3329]: step-systime: Operation not permitted
What version of CentOS 6 are you running? Do you have any DST settings selected? Did you run ntpdate as root or a regular user? Is your system's UT time off, or just the local time (date -u vs date)?
I'm running centos 6.6 64bit. I should have mentioned this is a command line only server so there's no gui to select anything. I do everything as root. The system is in the US.
Distribution: Debian Sid AMD64, Raspbian Wheezy, various VMs
Posts: 7,585
Rep:
Sorry, not sure how else to gather data. It is an easy guess that, for whatever reason, your system doesn't know it's BST but without knowing what the system clock is actually set to it's difficult to be sure.
I solved it with the following steps. I discovered my vps provider blocks all ntp packets due to attacks however they do provide their own ntp server for their machines and they gave me the ip.
nano /etc/sysconfig/clock
contents:
Code:
ZONE="Europe/London"
UTC=true
ln -snf /usr/share/zoneinfo/GB /etc/localtime
nano /etc/ntp.conf in /etc/ntp.conf I entered the ip my provider gave
/etc/init.d/ntpd restart
clock is now correct.
and thankyou for your responses 273
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