Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 15:20:28 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Jimmy Lantz <jimmy.lantz@lusidor.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fBSD 4.6 - Turn back time? I'm on a timemachine! Message-ID: <20020820142028.GB16482@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020820155724.00bbd110@mail.lusidor.nu> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020820155724.00bbd110@mail.lusidor.nu>
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On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 04:06:13PM +0200, Jimmy Lantz wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a problem with my FreeBSD box,
> It's present time is way in the future, how can I force this to be current
> time, I've tried adding this to rc.conf , and yes I've set the time zone.
>
> ntpdate_enable="YES"
> ntpdate_program="ntpdate"
> ntpdate_flags="-bs ntp1.sp.se ntp2.sp.se"
NTP, at least in it's guise as ntpd, will just give up if the system
clock is a long way off. Not sure about ntpdate...
> But still:
>
> foobar# time
> 0.374u 0.112s 2:30:50.00 0.0% 362+988k 2+0io 5pf+0w
The 'time' command has nothing to do with the time-of-day: it shows
you how much time a process took to run.
> foobar# date
> Ons 20 Aug 2003 23:32:48 CEST
Just use the 'date' command to get the clock in the right ballpark ---
within a minute or so should be fine, and then try ntpdate again:
date 200208201514
ntpdate -bs ntp1.sp.se ntp2.sp.se
Look at using ntpd to keep the clock accurate automatically while the
system is running --- it's a lot more effective than running ntpdate
every so often, although running ntpdate once immediately on boot up
and then starting ntpd usually gives the best results.
Cheers,
Matthew.
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