How DO I Save Changes on commands made on Nagiosxi VM?

[Iykmode]

I made certain changes on CentOS 6.3, particularly on date and time. Everything worked fine until I rebooted and it went back to the former time.

I think its because I did not save the changes I made. What can I do?

[scottwilkerson]

how did you make the changes?

Many people use NTP to manage time

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yum install ntp -y
service ntpd start

[Iykmode]

I took the following steps to change the date:

cd /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia
ln -sf Kuala_Lumpur /etc/localtime
ntpdate pool.ntp.org
yum install ntp

I have now used the commands you gave me and reloaded Nagiosxi. It still returns me to the previous time which is 17:17 UTC time. 7 hours ahead of local time in Nigeria which is GMT +1

[mguthrie]

You may still need to update your timezone for PHP in the /etc/php.ini file. Instructions on updating that can be found in the following FAQ:
http://support.nagios.com/wiki/index.ph ... .22_Errors

[BanditBBS]

It also could be getting set by the time on the VM Host machine. Is that machine set to correct current local time?

[slansing]

Did you follow this guide here? It has a more in-depth view of date/time settings:

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/micros ... nalId=1436

Bandit also has a good point.

[Iykmode]

This guide was very useful for me. I have followed all the steps required. I have changed my timezone to Africa/Lagos, ie, WAT.

However, after I reload, it still puts me 7 hours ahead, though no more UTC time but on WAT. Even when I manually change the time with the date command, it still goes back to 7 hours ahead of local time after I reload.

[lmiltchev]

Can you run the following command and show us the output?

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cat /etc/php.ini | grep date.timezone

[Iykmode]

Thanks, this is the output I got:

; http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.c ... e.timezone
date.timezone = Europe/London

[scottwilkerson]

edit that file and change the following if you are in Africa/Lagos

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timezone=Africa/Lagos