From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 20 6:51: 3 2002 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 D4F9B37B404 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 06:51:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhost.gu.edu.au (kraken.itc.gu.edu.au [132.234.250.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68FED43E6A for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 06:50:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@cit.gu.edu.au) Received: from hobbit.cit.gu.edu.au (IDENT:qkCpqMibF1hLtCsSHg2lnUukD3+0fICK@hobbit.cit.gu.edu.au [132.234.86.7]) by mailhost.gu.edu.au (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id g8KDp0C04090; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 23:51:01 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost (steve@localhost) by hobbit.cit.gu.edu.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8KDouS02583; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 23:50:57 +1000 Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 23:50:56 +1000 (EST) From: Steven Goodwin To: Len Conrad Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: time off by 30 minutes In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020920083918.03223cf0@mail.Go2France.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Len Conrad wrote: > > > > >Check your /etc/localtime is correct for your timezone. > > > >ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/xxxx localtime > > > >where xxxx is the correct location. > > rm /etc/localtime > > from /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab: > > US +415100-0873900 America/Chicago Central Time > US +450628-0873651 America/Menominee Central Time - Michigan - > Wisconsin border > US +470659-1011757 America/North_Dakota/Center Central Time - > North Dakota - Oliver County > > I've tried rm old + ln new with all three of above, still 30 minutes late. > > Where else is this determined? I think the problem could be the -d (debug) option to ntpdate. Try ntpdate time.nist.gov as root and that should set your system clock to GMT. Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message