correct way to set timezone & clock/date?

[Steven A. DuChene]

SuSE-10.1 does not seem to have rdate as an available utility.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Bob Elzer <bob.elzer at gmail.com>
>Sent: Aug 25, 2009 3:19 PM
>To: 'Main PLUG discussion list' <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>Subject: RE: correct way to set timezone & clock/date?
>
>To set you initial time you should run rdate
> 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Jon M.
>Hanson
>Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 11:43 AM
>To: Main PLUG discussion list
>Subject: Re: correct way to set timezone & clock/date?
>
>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