ZDATE_ILLEGAL_LOCTIME dump in VMWare environment

Updated May 18, 2018

ZDATE_LARGE_TIME_DIFF dump SAP system

Hello SAP Experts,

I am getting ZDATE_ILLEGAL_LOCTIME or ZDATE_LARGE_TIME_DIFF short dump in my SAP System which is running on Windows OS in VMware vSphere virtual environment.

The developer traces of the error can be obeserved as follows:

1) ERROR => 24.09.2013 21:58:04.800 PID=4216, TID=3312#SapTimer
error. SapTime differs from Windows time. ERRORS: 0,
SapTime-WindowsUtcTime=-10814 seconds.

2) ERROR => 13.06.2013 01:42:18.693 PID=2840, TID=3920#SapTimer error.
Time may be incorrect on your system. Windows time jumped approx +1788
seconds. Slept 1014 millisec

Comments

24 Jan 2017 5:18 pm Abhijeet Mudgal Helpful Answer

In order to resolve this error use either w32time or NTP (Network Time Protocol) as the primary time synchronization utility (highly recommended) on the ESX Server Host and follow the recommendations from VMware KB 1318
www.kb.vmware.com/kb/1318
It is no longer recommended by VMware to use the time synchronization with their VMware Tools.

24 Jan 2017 5:19 pm Chandan Singh Parihar Helpful Answer

The runtime error you are facing mostly happens in the following situations:
1) If the local windows time of the application server is inconsistent and varies from SAP time.
2) if the difference between the local time of the application server and the local time of the database server is huge
Therefore only time services who change the time gradually are allowed for synchronizing the application server.