[wplug] fixing the time?

[terry mcintyre]

Are you running ntp? "ps -ef | grep ntp" 

If so, you may wish to stop ntp, set the time via ntpdate, and restart ntp

Something like 

/etc/init.d/ntp stop 
ntpdate 0.pool.ntp.org
/etc/init.d/ntp start

( if you are not running ntp, it's a good idea - you will get more accurate time )


Also, set the hardware clock from the system clock:  hwclock -w

 Terry McIntyre <terrymcintyre at yahoo.com>


"Go is very hard. The more I learn about it, the less I know." -Jie Li, 9 dan



----- Original Message ----
> From: Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi at gmail.com>
> To: General user list <wplug at wplug.org>
> Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 4:42:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [wplug] fixing the time?
> 
> On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 19:41 -0400, Zach Uram wrote:
> > My Debian box keeps showing the wrong time, I reconfigured the tzdata package
> > and selected America and New York and it still shows the time as 2
> > hour behind the real time.
> > 
> > I just did it now:
> > 
> > bach# date
> > Fri Aug 29 17:39:33 EDT 2008
> > 
> > bach# dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
> > 
> > Current default timezone: 'America/New_York'
> > Local time is now:      Fri Aug 29 17:39:35 EDT 2008.
> > Universal Time is now:  Fri Aug 29 21:39:35 UTC 2008.
> > 
> > The current time is 19:39 not 17:39 ! This is so annoying. Anyone know
> > how I can fix this?
> 
> Note that your UTC is wrong too then.  Did you set the right thing in
> your BIOS?
> 
> -- 
> Mackenzie Morgan
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