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The time on your virtual private server is incorrect.

SOLUTION

By default, your server is set to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). If you would like to change your timezone, you need to create a link from /etc/localtime to the appropriate time zone file.

1. Connect to your server as root via SSH.
2. Remove your current timezone setting by executing the following:

rm /etc/localtime

3. List available timezones on your server:

ls -1 /usr/share/zoneinfo/

4. Determine which timezone you wish to use, then set the timezone by issuing the following command:

(We're using EST5EDT in this particular example)

ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT /etc/localtime

5. Check the time to ensure it's correct by issuing the following command:

date

You will see something similar to this:

Fri Mar 15 20:18:31 GMT 2013

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