correct way to set timezone & clock/date?

[Eric Cope]

You can force an update, instead of waiting on the incremental changes. But,
as noted below, it may affect services.
Eric

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Jon M. Hanson <jon at the-hansons-az.net>wrote:

> ntp also adjusts your clock gradually so it won't immediately jump to
> the correct time. This is to prevent problems with services (like cron
> and logging) that depend on a clock that doesn't suddenly change.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Aug 25, 2009, at 11:33 AM, Alex Dean <alex at crackpot.org> wrote:
>
> > Try tailing /var/log/messages (you said this was fedora, right?)
> > when you start up the ntp daemon.  It can take a while (>1 minute
> > sometimes) for the time servers to synchronize, but you should see
> > some log activity during that time to show you that it's working.
> >
> > alex
> >
> > On Aug 25, 2009, at 1:27 PM, Steven A. DuChene wrote:
> >
> >> Hmm, so I did the following:
> >>
> >> # iptables -A input_ext -p tcp -m tcp --dport 123 -j ACCEPT
> >>
> >> and then tried starting ntp services again but it still seems to hang
> >> when trying to get the initial date and time. So adding a rule to the
> >> firewall for tcp access on port 123 seems to have made no difference
> >> to my problem.
> >>
> >> nuts...
> >> --
> >> Steve
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: "kitepilot at kitepilot.com" <kitepilot at kitepilot.com>
> >>> Sent: Aug 25, 2009 2:13 PM
> >>> To: "Steven A. DuChene" <linux-clusters at mindspring.com>, Main PLUG
> >>> discussion list <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> >>> Subject: Re: correct way to set timezone & clock/date?
> >>>
> >>> From /etc/services
> >>>
> >>> ntp             123/tcp
> >>> ntp             123/udp                         # Network Time
> >>> Protocol
> >>>
> >>> I would use "ntp" instead of "udp", and if it doesn't work, take a
> >>> dump...
> >>> :)
> >>> ET
> >>>
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