From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 20 8: 0:10 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 49DC837B406 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 08:00:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from home.24cl.com (174.113.sn.ct.dsl.thebiz.net [216.238.113.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B7B343E75 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 08:00:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from myraq@mgm51.com) Received: from ntmm (unknown [63.119.50.193]) by home.24cl.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C45C72B27E for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 11:00:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <200209201100060963.002F1F16@home.24cl.com> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020920091303.04382968@mail.Go2France.com> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020920083918.03223cf0@mail.Go2France.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20020920091303.04382968@mail.Go2France.com> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.30.00.00 (1) Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 11:00:06 -0400 Reply-To: myraq@mgm51.com From: "MikeM" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: time off by 30 minutes 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 9/20/02 at 9:15 AM Len Conrad wrote: >>I think the problem could be the -d (debug) option to ntpdate. Try > ># rm /etc/localtime ># ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago /etc/localtime ># ntpdate time.nist.gov >20 Sep 08:42:52 ntpdate[71492]: step time server 192.43.244.18 offset >1784.223346 sec ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ============= You might want to try manually setting the clock to be a little closer to the actual time. Also, don't use the nist server, it is already too busy. Pick a server near you from this list: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message