[ale] NTP/Chrony time zone persistence

[Derek Atkins]

"Jeremy T. Bouse" <jeremy.bouse at undergrid.net> writes:

>     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.

Fedora certainly uses /etc/localtime, so I presume CentOS would as well.

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

-derek

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