My name is Seth Chisamore.
Former IBMer, former FIMer currently I'm principal architect for MaxMedia an interactive agency in Atlanta, GA. I create rich internet and web applications using open source technology. I love my wife, our triplets and independent music.
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Not long ago John Willis (VP of services at Opscode) and I gave a quick interview with Robert Scoble discussing how my company, MaxMedia, has leveraged Opscode Chef and the Rackspace Cloud to scale our small development team and save money. Figure the video can speak for itself:
We recently ran into an issue with one of our virtual servers running up in the Rackspace Cloud . Some legacy application code required the time zone on our server to be set to EST but we could not get the UTC offset to stick. We tried all the usual suspects on our Ubuntu 8.04 LTS instance:
….nothing seemed to worked. My sysadmin and I were at a loss, but we finally stumbled across a site with some good advice about setting a time zone in the cloud:
As a virtual server hosted using Xen virtualization technology, such as those offered by RackSpace Cloud Server offer, system time will get reset by Xen to match the physical machine’s clock whenever the virtual server is restarted.
This time-reset behavior can be modified if you can change the Xen configuration. However as a user of the cloud computing service, you most likely do not have such access.
You can however do the following to set your system to the time you want. Changing the time zone of your system will set your system time to the correct time of that time zone, given that your virtualization provider gives your server a correct UTC time.
Here’s how we finally made the offset stick on our configuration:
…bonus points…no reboot required
