DHCP client protocol timing affected by NTP time change

Eugene Grosbein eugen at grosbein.net
Tue Aug 8 10:03:28 UTC 2017


08.08.2017 8:37, Klemen Sladic wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I am experiencing an interesting problem with DHCP client timeouts.
> When the system boots up it set its date/time, starts DHCP client and NTP client.
> Only after the DHCP client interface is configured, the NTP client is able to access
> the NTP server.
> In my case, when NTP client adjusts the date/time it is set 12 hours back because
> of different time zone.

That's plain wrong and that's a root of your problem.
In no way a time zone difference should affect NTP time and kernel time.

The only case it could happen that's client keeping local time in its RTC
instead of UTC time. Fix it to keep UTC time in the RTC and it will be fine.



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