[PVE-User] Spam:**********, How to change the time and date on VM?

[Bruce B]

Thanks for all the input. Changing the clock under Configuration > System >
Time only changes for the main node and any type of reboots to the system
doesn't fix the issue onthe VMs. VMs come with MSK time. I know other
project like OpenNode are looking to provide option for user at create time
to set TimeZone.

I also can not find  Options | Real | Time Clock under ProxMox GUI.

This command from your link actually works:

ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/*America/Chicago* /etc/localtime

I am not sure if this is all you need after all but it's much better than
installing 78 packages of install yum install ntpd. I am wondering if
someone can weigh in on this and tell me if this will bring about a solid
clock and there is no need for ntpd packages?

Thanks,

On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 6:17 AM, Jim Unroe <rock.unroe at gmail.com> wrote:

> Bruce,
>
> I did some googling and came across this. It seems pretty simple. You
> might try it next time (if there is a next time ;-)
>
> http://chrisjean.com/2009/03/03/change-timezone-in-centos/
>
> I've also had a situation where me time was off 4 or 5 hours
> (depending on EDT or EST) because Proxmox uses UTC time and my host
> uses local time. That can easily be accounted for under Options | Real
> Time Clock for each guest. Drove me nuts until I figured this out
> because all of my calls were in the future.
>
> Jim
>
> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Tony Zakula <tony at zakula.com> wrote:
> > A KVM should be the same as any Linux install.  The fact that it is a
> > VM makes no difference.  Technically, OpenVZ should be the same as
> > well, but it may be a little different because it is not a real VM.
> >
> > Tony Z
> >
> > On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Bruce B <bruceb444 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> CentOS.
> >> I did a yum install system-time-config and it installed 78 dependencies
> >> including gnome for the system-time-config and after I setup the time
> using
> >> system-time-config command and rebooted which worked fine.
> >> I hope this doesn't break anything else. I would have rather had this
> setup
> >> at the creation of the VM or a different way than installing
> >> system-time-config as it doesn't seem too good to me or probably not the
> >> right way for a VM?
> >> Thanks
> >> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Tony Zakula <tony at zakula.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> What kind of VM is it?
> >>>
> >>> Tony Z
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Bruce B <bruceb444 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> > Hi Everyone,
> >>> > I have a CentOS 5.2 lunched as a VM. I noticed that command clock
> >>> > doesn't
> >>> > work as I think it is not on any VM. My Proxmox server time was set
> to
> >>> > somewhere in Africa so now I changed that to America time but when I
> run
> >>> > command "date" within the VM I don't not see the change made. What
> >>> > privilages do I have within the VM to change date and time and also
> to
> >>> > set
> >>> > this VMs time properly.
> >>> > I hope I don't have to re-create this VM.
> >>> > Thanks
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