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Originally Posted by
xerox
I have a query regarding /etc/adjtime file.
We had an issue, where our system time was drifting.
We fixed this issue by changing Local to UTC in that file.
How will this change impact our system?
How does this fix the problem?
Changing /etc/adjtime won't fix the clock being off by n minutes, it'll put your computer in a different time zone.
I suspect he set it to UTC so he could set the clock using NTP. Most servers set their clocks to UTC, and network time is always UTC, so it's convenient. Then he probably adjusted other settings so that programs would still use your local time zone, by adding an offset to the UTC system time.
How this is done depends on your system.