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changing the internal System Clock on the JumpboxSubmitted by gmanolis on Mon, 12/17/2007 - 3:19pm.it seems Topics/edits/revisions are being Timestamped 5 hours into the future Is it possible the Jumpbox is set to GMT? How can I change this? |
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correcting jumpbox time with shell login
I'm getting a jumpbox setup for the first time and noticed that for some reason the time was off by 4 hours and 10 minutes. The time zone setting on the config page was correctly set to America:Los_Angeles.
So I SSH'd to a command prompt and typed 'date'. Sure enough, the time was wrong. Then I typed 'sudo date 01280914' to set the date/time to JAN 28, 09:14 AM.
The jumpbox (and the twiki application running on it) is now displaying the correct time. I may have to repeat this when the server is re-started, but that is a rare occurence so I don't mind.
Hope this is helpful to someone someday.
changing system clock
So it sounds like Twiki doesn't look at the system timezone settings. The actual hardware clock should be set to GMT. So Twiki must be getting its time strait from that.
What virtualization platform are you running on?
Austin
changing system clock
vmware player
There may be an application
There may be an application way of setting the timezone in Twiki, you might check their documentation. You can change the JumpBox timezone as shown here:
http://www.jumpbox.com/docs/changetimezone
That may have the desired effect.
Austin
changing system clock
jumpbox timezone is already set to America/Toronto (where I am)
is it this variable that Twiki uses to put a timestamp on edited Topics?
or it's own internal Server clock? when i post topics, they are timestamped 5 hours into the future (which is GMT)