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Updating current time in Wordpress JumpboxSubmitted by simoncperkins on Wed, 10/24/2007 - 6:26am.I've just deployed the Wordpress Jumpbox and noticed that the UTC time is showing a value that is about 18 hours in the past. (The Last Refreshed: time is the same in the jumpbox console). I assume that this is because the Jumpbox was stopped at that time and was then restored to the server today. Is there anyway to force an update of the current time on the jumpbox or do I have to wait until an automatic time update is received over the internet? |
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Updating current time in Wordpress Jumpbox
Time synchronization is a bit of a tricky issue in virtualization, given that you have the ability to suspend and resume virtual machines, and the guest tools may not be available for every platform and may not function correctly.
For the time being, I have suggested to users that they set up a cron job (that's a scheduled recurring task) that periodically runs and syncs the time with an external network source where possible. Check out the last few paragraphs of my comment here:
http://www.jumpbox.com/node/642#comment-707
That describes how to schedule an hourly job to synchronize your clocks. Let me know if you want instructions for doing it more frequently.
Austin
Updating current time in Wordpress Jumpbox
Thanks - setting tools.syncTime = "TRUE" in the vmx file did the trick as I'm running on VMWare Server,