You can force an update, instead of waiting on the incremental changes. But, as noted below, it may affect services.
Eric
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@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@kitepilot.com" <kitepilot@kitepilot.com>
>>> Sent: Aug 25, 2009 2:13 PM
>>> To: "Steven A. DuChene" <linux-clusters@mindspring.com>, Main PLUG
>>> discussion list <plug-discuss@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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