From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 3 14:25:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail3.registeredsite.com (mail3.registeredsite.com [209.35.159.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B456C37B565 for ; Wed, 3 May 2000 14:25:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cwalker@powercomenergy.com) Received: from mail.powercomenergy.com (mail.powercomenergy.com [216.25.67.109]) by mail3.registeredsite.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA09736; Wed, 3 May 2000 16:21:12 -0400 Received: from iscaleb [63.203.115.214] by mail.powercomenergy.com (SMTPD32-5.05) id A84DAEE00DA; Wed, 03 May 2000 17:21:17 -0400 From: "Caleb Walker" To: "'Matthew Hunt'" Cc: "'Bsdquestions (E-mail)'" Subject: RE: xntpd problems Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 14:27:24 -0700 Message-ID: <003501bfb546$600e95d0$3201a8c0@iscaleb> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20000503141000.A32609@wopr.caltech.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG How would go about setting it to PDT? Right now it is GMT. -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Hunt [mailto:mph@astro.caltech.edu] Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 2:10 PM To: Caleb Walker Cc: Bsdquestions (E-mail) Subject: Re: xntpd problems On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 02:02:14PM -0700, Caleb Walker wrote: > does any body know why I gets this message when the xntpd stops: > > : time error 25117.143550 is way too large (set clock manually) Your clock is off by 7 hours, and xntpd will not make corrections that large, because it assumes something besides the usual clock drift is amiss. Perhaps you want your clock to be Pacific Daylight Time, but have set your UTC clock to PDT instead? Try running "date" with no arguments: $ date Wed May 3 14:08:18 PDT 2000 If the time matches the clock on the wall, but the timezone isn't right for where you are, try copying /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles to /etc/localtime, and using the "date" command to set the time; the example in the manual page gives: # The command: # # date 1432 # # sets the time to 2:32 PM, without modifying the date. Run "date" to make sure it's sane, and fire up xntpd again. -- Matthew Hunt * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message