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01-18-2014, 12:29 AM	#1
massy Member Registered: Nov 2013 Distribution: CentOS 6.4 Posts: 209 Blog Entries: 1 Rep:	difference time by hwclock and date command When I use hwclock command, sometimes, it shows the same time as date command time and sometimes, It is 12 hours later.How do I fix it?

01-18-2014, 02:33 AM	#2
wildwizard Member Registered: Apr 2009 Location: Oz Distribution: slackware64-14.0 Posts: 875 Rep:	Is your timezone UTC-12 and are you running ntpd?

01-18-2014, 04:00 AM	#3
myatthu Member Registered: Jan 2014 Distribution: CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu Posts: 108 Rep:	difference time by hwclock and date command if you are using redhat, what is your value at /etc/sysconfig/clock utc=?

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