NTP Server - +Hour

Solution 1:

You cannot. NTP is UTC and unaware of time zones. Attempting to hack an offset into your time sources will break NTP. And possibly break applications with a requirement for time sync, like Kerberos.

Time zone is like any other host configuration. Set a default in your base operating system image. Set it differently per group of hosts if needed. Possibly allow users to change it.


Softros Network Time Server has an unfortunate acronym collision with Network Time Security for NTP. The former is proprietary, the latter a proposed standard with implementations recently arriving in Linux distros, namely Fedora with chrony.