Linux system time and host synchronization and time zone settings in VMware

There are various data on the network, but the simplest way is to modify the virtual machine's configuration file *.VMX.
Modify Tools.synctime = "FALSE" to Tools.synctime = "TURE".
However, this requires VMware tools support, and the installation of VMware tools can be used to find relevant network information.
VMware Tools was installed automatically when I used the VMware 6.5 installation RHEL5.

The time display problem was found after rebooting the system:
[[Email protected] ~]# Date
Sat Mar 7 08:58:27 PST 2009
In fact, it is Beijing time March 8, 2009 00:58, a difference of 16 hours.
Online Search PST time, the original PST time for the United States Pacific Standard Time, this time zone is located in Greenwich West 8 time zone, late Beijing time 16 hours. (This is the vmware6.5 automatic installation of RHEL5 system to blame)

Discover/etc/sysconfig/clock files are configured in United States time:
[Email protected] ~]# Cat/etc/sysconfig/clock
Zone= "America/los_angeles"
Utc=true
Arc=false

UTC is true to indicate that the RTC is saved in UTC time, and False indicates that the local time is saved.
It is then modified to:
[Email protected] ~]# Cat/etc/sysconfig/clock
Zone= "Asia/shanghai"
Utc=false
Arc=false

The problem continues after rebooting the system! So I thought of the locale
[Email protected] ~]# locale
Lang=en_us. UTF-8
Lc_ctype= "en_US. UTF-8 "
Lc_numeric= "en_US. UTF-8 "
Lc_time= "en_US. UTF-8 "
Lc_collate= "en_US. UTF-8 "
Lc_monetary= "en_US. UTF-8 "
Lc_messages= "en_US. UTF-8 "
Lc_paper= "en_US. UTF-8 "
Lc_name= "en_US. UTF-8 "
Lc_address= "en_US. UTF-8 "
Lc_telephone= "en_US. UTF-8 "
Lc_measurement= "en_US. UTF-8 "
Lc_identification= "en_US. UTF-8 "
Lc_all=

[Email protected] ~]# cat/etc/sysconfig/i18n
Lang= "en_US. UTF-8 "
Sysfont= "Latarcyrheb-sun16"
Modified to:
[Email protected] ~]# cat/etc/sysconfig/i18n
Lang= "ZH_CN. UTF-8 "
Sysfont= "Latarcyrheb-sun16"

Save exit Log on again to execute date
[[Email protected] ~]# Date
March 07, 2009 Saturday 09:13:44 PST

Or show PST time, depressed! The original set Shanghai time fall short!

# Rm/etc/localtime
# Ln-sf/usr/share/zoneinfo/asia/shanghai/etc/localtime

[[Email protected] ~]# Date
Sunday, March 08, 2009 01:33:14 CST

Linux system time and host synchronization and time zone settings in VMware