Hello,

I'm very confused with the date/zone thing.

I'm located in Greece so our time zone is GMT+2.

question 1:

through cento's setup should I setup the timezone to GMT+2? or Europe/Athens ???
what is the difference?

question 2:
I've setup both system and hardware time to GMT+2:

[root@server httpdocs]# date
Fri Nov 6 14:25:31 GMT+2 2009

[root@server httpdocs]# hwclock
Fri 06 Nov 2009 02:25:49 PM GMT+2 -0.000358 seconds

but when I use a php (echo date("l, F d, Y h:i" ,time());) file to show the date and time I get :
Friday, November 06, 2009 05:25

it adds +3 hours...i dont know why.

question 3:

In /etc/sysconfig/clock I have:

ZONE="Etc/GMT+2"
UTC=false


should I turn UTC on ?

Don't know about Greece, but in the US we have daylight savings time that adjusts the time +/- an hour in the Spring and Fall, but some states do things differently than others across our 4 major time zones in the continental US, never mind Alaska, Hawaii and "possessions" such as Puerto Rico. The "political" settings, as opposed to GMT+delta, take the local peculiarities into account and adjust the clock appropriately. You may have something similar. As far as the UTC setting, this is generally used on *nix systems like Linux to keep the hardware clock on GMT/UTC and display the system time as the local time in applications.

If you are dual-boot with Windows, or worse yet multi-boot, this gets more complex.

pschaff Thank you for your answer.

we also have DST here.

so if I understand correct I should keep the hdclock setup in UTC and my software clock in GMT+2?
I'm confused because the particular server is used for hosting and issues with wrong time affects many users.

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Yes.
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Only if you want to ignore DST changes and lock your time to UTC+2 always. If you want correct local time even when DST is in effect, choose the Europe/Athens timezone.