changing the internal System Clock on the Jumpbox

it seems Topics/edits/revisions are being Timestamped 5 hours into the future
(i am EST, which is GMT - 5 hrs)

Is it possible the Jumpbox is set to GMT? How can I change this?

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)