Different timestamp between "date" and "who -b"

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • The different timestamp shows between date and who -b. Their gap would be around eight hours.
[root@rhel7u4 ~]$ date; init 6
Tue Oct 17 15:40:10 HKT 2017
[root@rhel7u4 ~]$ who -b
         system boot  2017-10-17 23:41

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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