[ale] NTP/Chrony time zone persistence

Jeremy T. Bouse jeremy.bouse at undergrid.net
Thu Sep 15 12:09:54 EDT 2016


On 9/15/2016 11:51 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> vague memory of vmware bug not passing the timezone on a time request
> to virtual hardware clock. Only solution was a start up script that
> sets TZ on boot then does a time sync to an external source. Did not
> affect windows VMs but played hell on Linux VMs that expected the
> hwclock to send good data.
If this is the case then it is either specific to CentOS 7 because I'm
running ESXi 6 with a dozen Ubuntu 14.04/16.04 and Debian 7/8/testing
VMs and not a one has a problem holding time or it's timezone.

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