ntp off by one hour
 

Hey there are other threads that address this but none of them fix my problem. I know it's an issue with daylight savings time but my time is exactly one hour behind. I've tried changing timezones to -4 and even -3 instead of -5 but it always syncs to exactly the same time no matter aht timezone I change to. I've also tried several different servers. Maybe there's a way to just bump your time by one hour or something -- like outside of ntp.

The system clock in all *nix systems, including Linux, uses UTC internally. The time zone is only used to present the time to humans. Try running

and see if it displays the correct UTC time.

It also might be useful to let us know what distro you are using.

Any setting for follow/use daylight savings time?

apt-get install tzconfig

or old-school it.

/etc/timezone
/etc/localtime
/usr/share/zoneinfo/*

UTC time is correct. I'm using gentoo. I even tried setting my timezone to Japan/Tokyo and my clock still remains at exactly the same time. If I never run ntp my clock is off by a lot but that's cause my motherboard clock is wrong... It's like ntp is ignoring my timezone. What other options are there?

Ah /etc/localtime needs to be correct as well. It was just generic EST somehow. tzconfig doesn't configure that file btw, I was doing it both ways each time to see if anything different would happen.