> > My TZ is "Europe mainland", the NTP server is clock.redhat.com, and > I just ran: service ntpd stop ntpdate clock.redhat.com 9 Dec 14:21:47 ntpdate[4366]: no server suitable for synchronization found The ntpdate program did not like clock.redhat.com I tried a different server and it was OK. Also NTP servers tend to run GMT (or UTC if you prefer) and are timezone independent. I got 192.5.41.40 to work which is tick.usno.navy.mil.