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*SOLVED* Time inside vps differs from the host machine
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description: Hi, I'm having a little problem here... I have openvz running on a Pentium 3.2 HT with the following information: Linux test.server.com 2.6.8-022stab077.1-smp #1 SMP Fri Apr 21 17:02:34 MSD 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux This is running on Fedora Core 4 and I have a VPS with debian-3.1. The problem is that the times on the host machine and vps are messed up... Look: This was on the host machine: [root@test ~]# date Wed Jun 14 16:57:19 EDT 2006 [root@test ~]# clock Wed 14 Jun 2006 04:57:30 PM EDT -0.356429 seconds This was on the VPS: vps:~# date Wed Jun 14 20:57:50 UTC 2006 How come the three times are different? Shouldn't they all be the same? Thanks for the help... Eugenio Pacheco
creator: eugeniopacheco
date: 2006-06-14T20:58:25-00:00

Re: Time inside vps differs from the host machine
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description: Yes, this is the same. Your VPS uses UTC time, but your Hardware Node uses EDT (Eastern Standard Time), which differs from UTC and equals (UTC - 4). Thus, everithing is ok. However, you can tune VPS or HN to use the same time standart. It depends on Linux distribution how to do it.
creator: Vasily Tarasov
date: 2006-06-15T05:21:01-00:00