correct way to set timezone & clock/date?

[Steven A. DuChene]

yes


-----Original Message-----

From: Bob Elzer 

Sent: Aug 25, 2009 3:24 PM

To: "'Steven A. DuChene'" , 'Main PLUG discussion list' 

Subject: RE: correct way to set timezone & clock/date?

Are you running ntpdate as root ?
 
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[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of 
Steven A. DuChene
Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 12:17 
PM
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: correct way to 
set timezone & clock/date?


I ran the following:

ntpdate -v -d dewey.lib.ci.phoenix.az.us 
ntp.drydog.com

and it looked for and found both hosts but then just sits 
there with
no other output.
--
Steve



-----Original 
  Message----- 
From: Eric Cope 
Sent: Aug 25, 2009 
  3:10 PM 
To: Main PLUG discussion list 
  
Subject: Re: correct way to set 
  timezone & clock/date? 

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