I believe you want to set UTC=false in /etc/sysconfig/clock. Setting UTC to 
true means that you are using UTC based clock which is five hours ahead of EST.

Dave


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Win Htin
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 3:39 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [rhelv5-list] Date shows time is 5hrs behind EST

Hi folks,

I have a new RHEL 5.4 server which is 5 hrs behind Eastern Standard
Time. following is what I have done and nothing seems to fix the
problem.

1. Set time and date from BIOS setup and rebooted the server.
2. cat /etc/sysconfig/clock
         ZONE="America/Toronto"
         UTC=true
         ARC=false
3. The ntp.conf file and ntpservers files were copied from another
server which is exactly the same hardware-wise. That other server has
the correct time/date.
4. a)  cd /usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada
    b)  cp -p Pacific /etc/localtime;
    c)  date;
         Tue Dec  1 07:29:11 PST 2009   <== the time changed BUT 5 hrs
behind actual clock
     e) cp -p Eastern /etc/localtime;
     f)  date;
         Tue Dec  1 10:30:15 EST 2009  <== the time changed
         BUT 5 hrs behind actual current time from another server
which is showing
         Tue Dec  1 15:31:23 EST 2009

Any idea what is causing the clock to be 5 hrs behind? TIA for your help.

Regards,
Win

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