Vps – CentOS 5 VPS – setting the date and time

timetimezonevps

I've just tried to set the timezone on my VPS to Europe/London:

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London /etc/localtime

This was fine. However, the time is now wildly out:

$ date
Sat Feb  5 12:33:21 GMT 2011

When it is in fact 22:31.

With it being a VPS, trying to do

$ date -s 22:31

also fails.

Is this something I can fix, or do I need my host to do something?

Thanks.

Best Answer

if using xen, try

echo 1 > /proc/sys/xen/independent_wallclock

and set date time again

This:

date +%s

will return the number of seconds since the epoch.

This:

date +%s%N

returns the seconds and current nanoseconds.

So:

date +%s%N | cut -b1-13

will give you the number of milliseconds since the epoch - current seconds plus the left three of the nanoseconds.

and from MikeyB - echo $(($(date +%s%N)/1000000)) (dividing by 1000 only brings to microseconds)

Amazon EC2 instances changes server time/date on reboots and other time weirdness

Go to this link on amazon's aws forum there is post by Nancy W. Abramson that might solve your problem. OR there is problem with AMD Hardware mentioned at blog.dt.org in time-and-clock-issues-in-windows-based-ec2-instances blog post. Hope this help you.

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