From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 31 15:17:03 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3240D16A41F for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:17:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E1E743D60 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:17:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B7905CF8; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:17:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 35583-09; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:16:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-79-217.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.79.217]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53D515C34; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:16:57 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4315C9E9.40109@mac.com> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:16:57 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050801 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Robert G." References: <4315C261.9080002@adelphia.net> In-Reply-To: <4315C261.9080002@adelphia.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Timezone isn't setting to EST corectly, ntp doesn't help X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:17:03 -0000 Robert G. wrote: > I'm connected to a remote machine located in NJ and ran > /usr/sbin/sysinstall and set the timezone to "Eastern Time", but the > clock is displaying 2:30PM or so when it is only 10:44AM here. > > I tried ntp but that didn't work as well. Does anyone have any idea > what's wrong? Your BIOS clock is probably set to keeping time in the local timezone rather than in GMT. ntpd won't correct a multi-hour offset without being nudged. You can run ntpdate -b to step the clock by the four hours, or use date to set it to something close by hand, and then run ntpd from there. -- -Chuck