[ale] NTP/Chrony time zone persistence

[Jeremy T. Bouse]

    NTP and Chrony are not going to do anything with your timezone...
They merely make sure that your clock is accurate and in sync with the
time source. The /etc/localtime on Debian systems points to the proper
zone info that sets your timezone setting system wide. It's configured
via the tzselect command. CentOS is going to have a similar means of
configuring your systems timezone. This is what will make your timezone
persist between reboots.

    Personally I keep all my servers in UTC and only laptop/desktop
computers are set to an actual local timezone.

On 9/13/2016 3:31 PM, Edward O. Holcroft wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a Samba server in an AD environment, so time sync with the DC
> is important for autentication. I have this working fine on many
> physical servers, but recently added a virtual CentOS 7 box on ESXi6,
> and cannot get it to stick.
>
> First I used NTP, which works immediately when run, but has no
> persistence through reboots. Then I read that CentOS7 uses chrony, so
> I changed, but still, after reboot, the client machine is reset to
> UTC, which it gets from the ESXi host, as it should.
>
> I tried setting the ESXi host to point to the local DC for time, but
> that made no difference to the time zone.
>
> Any ideas on how to force time zone persistence? Other than a cron job?
>
> ed
>
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