Hi everyone, I have a strange problem I somehow cannot get the hang of and would really apreciate your help. Maybe I am not seeing something totally obvious, but I just don't get it.
My server is in Germany: CE(S at the moment)T, respectively UTC+2 (UTC+1 without summertime). I noticed my system clock running 2 hours late. When I change the time using date or ntpdate the command reports back with the correct time but seconds later when I fire "date" again, the clock is back to its wrong setting. And this happens even when ntpd is not running! Timezone setting seems ok to me: ~# cat /etc/TIMEZONE # [...] TZ=Europe/Berlin CMASK=022 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 ~# set # [...] TZ=Europe/Berlin Now, with the NTP service disabled, I do the following: ~# svcadm disable ntp ~# ps -A | grep ntp ~# ntpdate 0.de.pool.ntp.org 1.de.pool.ntp.org 2.de.pool.ntp.org 3.de.pool.ntp.org 5 Aug 22:44:53 ntpdate[15182]: step time server 131.188.3.220 offset 3613.418971 sec ~# date Freitag, 5. August 2011, 20:44:55 Uhr CEST # wtf? ~# date 0805224411 Freitag, 5. August 2011, 22:44:00 Uhr CEST ~# date Freitag, 5. August 2011, 20:44:01 Uhr CEST # he keeps doing it... No matter how I set the date, time keeps jumping back 2 hours. Now start NTPd and try again: ~# svcadm enable ntp ~# ps -A | grep ntp 15324 ? 0:00 ntpd ~# date Freitag, 5. August 2011, 18:46:03 Uhr CEST # thanks ntpd for giving me another 2 hours of extra-time! ~# date 0805224611 Freitag, 5. August 2011, 22:46:00 Uhr CEST ~# date Freitag, 5. August 2011, 20:46:01 Uhr CEST So whenever I start up the NTPd, it sets my clock back by 2 hours? ~# date Freitag, 5. August 2011, 20:47:44 Uhr CEST ~# svcadm disable ntp ~# date Freitag, 5. August 2011, 20:48:02 Uhr CEST ~# svcadm enable ntp ~# date Freitag, 5. August 2011, 20:48:10 Uhr CEST No, doesn't seem like it's setting the clock back by a set amount, it seems to set it to a given timezone, but why is NTPd's CEST off by two hours? Try something else: ~# svcadm disable ntp ~# date Freitag, 5. August 2011, 20:53:09 Uhr CEST ~# date 0805235311 # setting time one hour early vs. real CEST! Freitag, 5. August 2011, 23:53:00 Uhr CEST ~# date Freitag, 5. August 2011, 21:53:01 Uhr CEST # system sets it back by two hours? ~# svcadm enable ntp ~# date Freitag, 5. August 2011, 19:53:13 Uhr CEST # ntpd sets it back another two hours! Well - I do not know what else I can try. I tried using TZ=CET instead of the Europe/Berlin, but the system does just the same. As I said in the beginning - I'd be really interested to find out what's wrong here. Thanks in advance! -bastian -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
