Format/result | Command | Output ——————————+—————————-+—————————— YY-MM-DD_hh:mm:ss | date +%F_%T | $(date +%F_%T) YYMMDD_hhmmss | date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S | $(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S) YYMMDD_hhmmss (UTC version) | date –utc +%Y%m%d_%H%M%SZ | $(date –utc +%Y%m%d_%H%M%SZ) YYMMDD_hhmmss (with local TZ) | date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S%Z | $(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S%Z) YYMMDDhhmmss | date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S | $(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S) YYMMDDhhmmssnnnnnnnnn | date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S%N | $(date…
Simple and easy : ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC /etc/localtime nJoy 😉
Virtual machines and NTP do not go easily well together. Machines paused for extended periods tend to loose the ntp sync since the difference grows too much. Also from VMware Docs the following info might be clarificatory: Do not configure the virtual machine to synchronize to its own (virtual) hardware clock, not even as…
Setting up NTP is very important for a host of application especially clusters and applications like DBs requiring all the servers to be critically time-wise synced. Install NTP on Red Hat and CentOS 6 $ yum install ntp $ chkconfig ntpd on $ ntpdate pool.ntp.org $ service ntpd start Install NTP on Ubuntu $ apt-get…
