[ale] NTP/Chrony time zone persistence

[Edward O. Holcroft]

Good point. I just checked my Ubuntu boxes on ESXi6, and they're all good.

For now I'm going to resort to placing ntpdate in a cronjob until I can
find a definitive answer.

Thanks for the help with this, folks.


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On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 12:09 PM, Jeremy T. Bouse <
jeremy.bouse at undergrid.net> wrote:

> 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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