Re: correct way to set timezone & clock/date?

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Author: mike havens
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Subject: Re: correct way to set timezone & clock/date?
in a shell type 'tz' and hit the tab key. nthe correct selection should be
'tzconfig' but your results may vary

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 1:02 AM, James Mcphee <> wrote:

> I use the ntp.org ntp servers. http://www.pool.ntp.org/
>
> I set my /etc/localtime to America/Phoenix, which will do MST without MDT.
> How you accomplish this is dependent on your setup, of course.
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Steven A. DuChene <
> > wrote:
>
>> I have a few systems here in my home that are either fedora or opensuse
>> installs.
>> I was setting up ganglia last night to add some monitoring to my home
>> setup
>> and discovered I had some issues with clock skew. When I got to looking I
>> noticed
>> that the timezones were set to MST and most of the systems were off by
>> about
>> a hour. What is the correct way to setup the timezone correctly for
>> systems located
>> here in Phoenix where daylight savings time changes do not take place?
>>
>> Also if you have a small home network what methods do everyone usually use
>> to keep clocks in sync across the network? I.E. if you use NTP what
>> externally
>> reliable NTP server do you use?
>> --
>> Steven DuChene
>>
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