[TriLUG] NTP time offset - fixed

[Jason Tower]

apparently the timezone wasn't set (i thought anaconda defaulted to EST?)  
probably user error during installation, maybe i had a flashback and thought 
i was back in germany...

solution: edit /etc/sysconfig/clock to include the statement:
  ZONE="America/New_York"

and everything started working (had to reboot to make the change take effect).

thanks to jon and jeremy katz for pointing this out!  jason

On Friday 21 March 2003 10:20, Brent Fox wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 09:46, Jon Carnes wrote:
> > The error says that you have no timezone set.  Did you set the timezone?
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jason Tower" <jason at cerient.net>
> > To: <trilug at trilug.org>
> > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 2:00 AM
> > Subject: [TriLUG] NTP time offset
> >
> >
> > i just built a RH8 box and set up the NTP daemon to sync with
> > clock1.unc.edu,
> > but the time that gets set is exactly two hours off (it sets the time to
> > be 9:14:06 when it is actually 11:14:06).  there is no clock adjustment
> > in the bios (it's an older compaq server with that annoying "put the bios
> > files on the hard disk" setup).  and i can't get redhat-config-time to
> > run, it errors out:
> >
> > [root at holly root]# redhat-config-time
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/share/redhat-config-date/redhat-config-date.py", line 35, in
> > ? mainWindow.mainWindow().stand_alone()
> >   File "/usr/share/redhat-config-date/mainWindow.py", line 181, in
> > __init__ self.timezonePage = timezone_gui.timezonePage()
> >   File "/usr/share/redhat-config-date/timezone_gui.py", line 50, in
> > __init__ self.tz = TimezoneMap(zonetab, self.default, map=path)
> >   File "/usr/share/redhat-config-date/timezone_map_gui.py", line 139, in
> > __init__
> >     self.setCurrent(self.currentEntry)
> >   File "/usr/share/redhat-config-date/timezone_map_gui.py", line 180, in
> > setCurrent
> >     self.markers[self.currentEntry.tz].hide()
> > AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'tz'
> >
> > any suggestions?
>
> Please see bug #76313.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=76313
>
> You need to update to the latest redhat-config-date in Rawhide.  That
> should fix the problem.
>
>
> Cheers,
>   Brent
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