Server Ahead One Hour
Articles and Tips: qna
01 Sep 2002
Q.
I have NetWare 6 with Support Pack 1 on a test server that seems hell-bent on setting its time ahead by one hour every time I boot it. I set the time in CMOS or DOS and still, after I boot the server, the time is set one hour ahead of where I set it to. Daylight Saving Time (DST) information seems to be set correctly. It's a Single Time Server in a tree on a network isolated by itself. Any ideas how to correct this before I move the server my production environment?
Time Ahead with Tennyson
A.
Dear Time: Novell TID #10070122 entitled "Time Moves Ahead One Hour After Daylight Savings" describes this problem. The following describes the problem and the temporary solution.
Time Source server is NetWare 6, with time advancing one hour upon every reboot. Time is synchronized, but one hour ahead on SECONDARY time servers. Timesync is version 6.01j or greater.
The current workaround to this problem is this:
In the AUTOEXEC.NCF, move the "SET TIME ZONE = <time string>" below the two set statements for START and END of Daylight Savings Time.
A fix will be included in the next Support Pack version of SERVER.EXE (NW6SP2).
* Originally published in Novell AppNotes
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