time shown in last output

Doug G · #1 20th May 2012, 12:54 AM

I just had an extended power outage and all my servers were rebooted. When checking the boot time from a terminal using /usr/bin/last | grep boot, I noticed a discrepancy in the times displayed. My servers are all set to local time (PDT) not UTC.

On f13 and f14 servers, the time shown by last was the correct 13:02. On f15 servers the time was shown as 06:02. The only thing I can figure is newer version of last assumes the times it reads from wtmp are UTC, and last then applied the GMT-7 offset again, giving me the wrong time.

Anyone else ever run across this?

george_toolan · #2 20th May 2012, 09:44 AM

Try system-config-date and uncheck the System clock uses UTC option on the bottom of the Time Zone tab.

Doug G · #3 20th May 2012, 07:03 PM

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Originally Posted by george_toolan

Try system-config-date and uncheck the System clock uses UTC option on the bottom of the Time Zone tab.

Thanks, it's already unchecked. Date & Time is working fine in most programs, last and who being a couple exceptions I've run across. date from cli shows the proper PDT time, syslogs have the right time in the log files that I've looked at.