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<p>I know older versions of SUSE on ESX 5.x have issues with time
sync and I believe it's kernel related as I recall.</p>
<p>We've got RHEL and CentOS < 7 (5 & 6) running in ESX 5.x
without this type of time issue.</p>
<p>Another thing to consider is the actually BIOS and ESX
time/timezone settings. Is the BIOS in UTC or localtime? Same with
the ESX server itself. Does this differ from the CentOS guest VM?
It could be that the systems don't match in what they believe the
hwclock time is set to and are treating it incorrectly on startup
when the OS will look at the hwclock to get the initial time and
set it. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/15/2016 12:25 PM, Jim Kinney
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<div>This was ages ago. pre esx6</div>
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<div>I'm not running esx except as legacy. All VM hosting is Ovirt
so I can't test </div>
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<div>On Thu, 2016-09-15 at 12:09 -0400, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:</div>
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<pre>On 9/15/2016 11:51 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
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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.
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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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