On Sun, 1 Sep 2013 19:54:27 -0800 I beatthebastards@inbox.com wrote:
Thanks, Roger,
I believe the server is in France and ultimately owned by a German company but it has some sort of connection to the USA and I am ten hours ahead. I have tried the timezone as Germany and Belgium to see, and set the clock on the server for the nine hours difference. Also I have tried my clock separately.
Let me guess, this is an OpenVZ or VServer-based VPS... You can't change date/time on those from inside the VPS. And date/time issues are so common on those, a symptom of lousy server management from the provider admins. You need to contact the provider and ask them to fix their date/time.
To check if they fixed it, run in your VPS:
TZ=UTC date
And then compare what you get with e.g.:
http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_UTC.aspx
Both should match to begin with, without that no matter which timezone you specify it won't work.