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Bug 346552

Summary:	clock on orion.eclipse.org is way off
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Boris Bokowski <bokowski>
Component:	vservers	Assignee:	Eclipse Webmaster <webmaster>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
Whiteboard:

Description Boris Bokowski

2011-05-19 18:06:29 EDT

admin@orion:~> date
Thu May 19 14:16:53 EDT 2011

Boris-Bokowskis-MacBook-Pro:~ bokowski$ date
Thu 19 May 2011 18:06:02 EDT

Comment 1 Boris Bokowski

2011-05-19 18:07:07 EDT

I don't want to just fix this once - shouldn't the time be synchronized using a time server?

Comment 2 Denis Roy

2011-05-19 18:44:39 EDT

You won't be able to change the hardware clock; virtual servers should be pulling their clock from the hypervisor. Seems the host server is not syncing properly.  I will check it.

Comment 3 Denis Roy

2011-05-20 09:54:29 EDT

I had encountered this before with other vservers -- for some reason, the timezone is computed twice, and short of setting an incorrect time on the host, I have a hard time getting it to work.

Easiest solution is to tell the domU to use an independent (from the host) clock:
echo 1 > /proc/sys/xen/independent_wallclock

... and to sync with an external source.
rdate -s build.eclipse.org


I've added this to a cron, so your clock should now always be in sync with build.eclipse.org's (which is synced from an external source).