NTP Server Time
NTP will keep your servers time in sync with other servers in your chosen time zone. As standard, all our dedicated servers use the system default timezone shipped with the installed OS package. On virtual servers, the time is set to UK time but you can change these to any time zone you like.
Follow the guide below to set up the correct time zone for you. Remember to replace the UK pool with your chosen pool. A list of NTP Pools can be found here. If you use cPanel you can use WHM to set the time on your server. Just log in and in the search bar type “time“
It’s important to note that if you run an OpenVZ or Virtuozzo server then the time is set on the host node and you cannot use this guide to change the date and time on these types of servers. We will cover ways of changing the date and time on these types of servers in another guide.
This guide is written for CentOS 6 servers.
To get started setting the time on your server just log in using SSH as the root user and run the commands one by one below. You can repeat the process to modify the timezone.
Install NTP
yum install ntpNext, we want to turn on NTP in the server;
/sbin/chkconfig ntpd onNext, let’s start NTP;
/etc/init.d/ntpd startNow choose an NTP pool you want to use;
ntpdate uk.pool.ntp.orgFinally, check the Date and Time in the server;
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