Heh. Every
install of
Red Hat 6.x I've had the pleasure of working with has a strange behavior regarding time. It decides, seemingly randomly, to reset the time.
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note: I've finally found a fix for this, on the
KDE site. These version of Red Hat don't properly decide what
time zone they're in.
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo /usr/lib/zoneinfo
does the trick.
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The first machine that I discovered this on was my
IBM Thinkpad, and I just chalked it up to it's weird
BIOS,
APM mistakes, and/or the fact that I was switching hard disks constantly before I really had it set up well. I got used to thinking in terms of
GMT and eventually I learned to
synch the clock, made a nice alias for it and put it in my
.bashrc file. For the interested:
# echo "alias settime='rdate -s tock.usno.navy.mil'" >> /root/.bashrc
Note: if you mess up and put one > into the above statement, it
overwrites your (
root's) .bashrc file. Such is life with
UNIX.
I've noticed that our
webserver does the same thing, and a server doesn't power cycle nearly as often as a laptop, nor is it booting another OS, nor does it use APM. Hmmm...
Now it's gone and done it twice! It's not in Greenwich Mean anymore, it's in India Standard Time! WTF?
Thanks, Red Hat!
This isn't really a negative opinion of Red Hat, it's just a little quirk. I wouldn't keep running it at home if I didn't like it.