Time Stamps wrong in log.

[att0055rj]

I'm having an issue with a few of the routers on my network. The output of the show clock command displays the correct time, but the log entries are off by about 5-ish hours. Is the router sitting in a time-warp? Events are happening in the future(?) :P

Ex:

May 8 17:39:05.144: %ENTITY_ALARM-6-INFO: ASSERT MINOR AT1/0 Physical Port Link Down

<hostname>#sh clock

12:45:51.975 cdt Tue May 8 2007

Config is as such:

clock timezone cst -6

clock summer-time cdt recurring 2 Sun Mar 2:00 1 Sun Nov 2:00

ntp clock-period 17179830

ntp update-calendar

ntp server <IP of NTP Server> prefer

The router that I copied the above example from is a 7206 running:

Version 12.4(7b)

I also see this problem with some other 7206s as well as a few 1841s. Doesn't seem to be any correlation. Ideas why this is??

[Joe Clarke · Accepted solution]

The log messages are showing a UTC time stamp. Please include the service portion of the config as well. You probably want to add:

service timestamps log datetime localtime

[att0055rj]

As requested:

service timestamps debug datetime msec

service timestamps log datetime msec

[Joe Clarke]

Yep, just add a localtime in there, and you'll get localized time stamps. You might also want to add show-timezone to see to what timezone they're localized. And because I'm pedantic, timezones are usually written in all upper case (i.e. CST and CDT).