correct way to set timezone & clock/date?

[Steven A. DuChene]

I mis-spoke below. It is not the cable modem thata has a time display but rather the cable TV box
that has nothing to do with my network.

I have discovered something else. If I start ntpd by hand on my external gateway server
(the SuSE-10.1 system), it seems to work just fine. It seems to synchronize with the
ntp servers and provides replies to my local network systems.

It seems that is is just the actual ntpdate command to those external servers that does not
function and hangs everytime I try it. My guess is if I commented out the calls to ntpdate
in the ntp init script everything would function just fine.

Why would ntpd connect and work fine but ntpdate will not function?
--
Steve

-----Original Message-----
>From: "Steven A. DuChene" <linux-clusters at mindspring.com>
>Sent: Aug 25, 2009 3:50 PM
>To: Alex Dean <alex at crackpot.org>, Main PLUG discussion list <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>Subject: Re: correct way to set timezone & clock/date?
>
>My Cox cable modem has a time display that is set by their network and the time on my system
>is set to under a minute different than that display. Besides if I cannot get any sort of reply
>from the ntp servers how can I tell what time they are synced to?
>--
>Steve
>