Time Differences

[Glenn]

---------- Original Message -----------
From: Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:44:40 +1000
Subject: Re: Time Differences

> On 20Jun2007 14:22, Glenn <glenn at mail.txwes.edu> wrote:
> | I'm trying to figure out why different applications display 
> different times | on my fully-patched RHEL 4 server.  Assume the 
> time at the console is 10:00.  | If I log in remotely using PuTTy, 
> the date command shows the time is 10:00.  | If I create a text file,
>  it also shows it was created at 10:00.  If I connect | via FTP 
> using the same user name and list the text file, the creation time | 
> shows 15:00.  In fact, all the file times are five hours later in 
> the FTP | window than they are in the PuTTy window.  There is 
> another application, a | print server, that shows all times an hour 
> different from the console time.  | Any idea why the differences, or 
> how to fix them?  Thanks.   -Glenn.
> 
> Your FTP server is not running in your personal default local time.
> 
> The underlying system (kernel and on-disc filesystem structures) record
> time in seconds since midnight 01jan1970 GMT, and the default time
> rendering converts to your local timezone for display purposes.
> 
> This is controlled by an envionment variable $TZ on a per-process 
> basis, and otherwise by a system file with a default is $TZ is not specially
> set.
> 
> Probably the login process sets $TZ for you and the system default is
> not set up.
> 
> Try running the system-config-time command from a root shell.
> -- 
> Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> DoD#743
> http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/
> 
> So the master hit the novice upside the head with the back of his hand.
> "Why did you do that!?"  "I do not want to have to learn another editor."
> And the student was enlightened.        - Larry Colen <lrc at netcom.COM>
> 
> 
Thanks for the ideas!  I had already configured the system time, and it turns 
out that the print server problem affected only one user, indicating a 
problem with the time on the user's PC.  This narrowed it down to the FTP 
server, and I discovered that vsftpd defaults to GMT.  I corrected this by 
adding "use_localtim=YES" at the bottom of the config 
file, /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf , and restarting vsftpd.  Thanks again.   -G.