Fedora 15 date & time issue.

[vermissa]

I upgraded from fedora 14 to fedora 15 yesterday. I live in India (IST) which is GMT +05:30 . Every time I boot, my system clock increases its time by 5 and a half hours. For example, system clock on my machine is now Wednesday May 26,2011 22:44. If i were to reboot now, the time I would get is Thursday May 27, 2011 04:14. How do I correct this? Thanks in advance.

[AdamW]

try running system-config-date, going to the Time Zone tab, and flipping the state of the 'System clock uses UTC' checkbox (whatever it is now, make it the opposite). does that help?

[vermissa]

That worked beautifully . Thanks ..

[AdamW]

excellent! glad I could help

[tsangcn]

I got the same problem after upgrade to fedora 15.

I have found that fedora 15 ALWAYS treats BIOS clock as UTC no matter you have checked "System clock uses UTC" or not in system-config-date. That means fedora 15 NEVER treats BIOS clock as LOCAL.

Is this a bug?

[AdamW]

i'm not sure I entirely understand - if that's the case, how did changing that setting solve the problem for the other poster?

[vinaysingh]

Is Windows also installed on the concerned computer?

[tsangcn]

The other poster solved the problem because he has not mentioned what is the setting of "System clock uses UTC".
A problem is a problem, it does not matter whether there is Windows installed.

I have try the following
1. check "System clock uses UTC" - the date and time is OK.
2. uncheck "System clock uses UTC" - the date and time is incorrect, fedora 15 seems just ignored the setting, it is still "think" that the "System clock uses UTC" is checked.

I do not have another computer to test whether this problem exists in every fedora 15 installed machine or just in my machine.

[bastian_knight]

I have the same problem. I have filled a bug for this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709211

[tox]

During install, untick use UTC time Zone i always do and works fine

[overtime]

Gets UK time wrong. Hardly a cutting edge distro if if can't get the time right without ad hoc fixes.

[bastian_knight]

You can correct the problem by invoking as root:

systemctl enable hwclock-load.service

After that set clock to correct time and reboot.

[christianvl]

This

systemctl enable hwclock-load.service

or changing time settings to "network"

Problem remains...

EDIT
after rebooting, the system corrected my time according to the "network" setting.

[ravindrapankaj]

Is Windows also installed on the concerned computer?

yes I have windows as well and facing the same problem.

[daff42]

FYI, I had the same issue after upgrading from FC14 to FC15. My hardware clock was read as UTC upon boot although it was local time, setting system time off by a few hours.

I ran:

systemctl enable hwclock-load.service

Then corrected the system time and rebooted.

That fixed it for me. Thanks !!