[wplug] fixing the time?

Tom Rhodes trhodes at FreeBSD.org
Tue Sep 2 03:59:39 EDT 2008


On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:03:46 -0400
"Michael Semcheski" <mhsemcheski at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:35 PM, terry mcintyre
> <terrymcintyre at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > ( if you are not running ntp, it's a good idea - you will get more accurate time )
> 
> If its a VPS, the guest (ie, the machine in question) gets its time
> from the host (the physical server that runs many guests.)
> 
> In the case of the guest, there's no point in running NTP.  I believe
> the guest gets its hardware clock from the host, but can't really
> modify it.

Can't the date(1) command fix this?

-- 
Tom Rhodes


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