From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 3 17:18:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA9C737B565 for ; Wed, 3 May 2000 17:18:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA18633; Thu, 4 May 2000 09:49:09 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 09:49:09 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Caleb Walker Cc: Matthew Hunt , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: xntpd problems Message-ID: <20000504094909.A18453@freebie.lemis.com> References: <20000503141000.A32609@wopr.caltech.edu> <003501bfb546$600e95d0$3201a8c0@iscaleb> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <003501bfb546$600e95d0$3201a8c0@iscaleb> Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 3 May 2000 at 14:27:24 -0700, Caleb Walker wrote: > On Wednesday, May 03, 2000 2:10 PM, Matthew Hunt wrote: >> 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. > > How would go about setting it to PDT? # cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles /etc/localtime Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message