From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 20 8:51:44 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 9468E37B401 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 08:51:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mgw1-out.MEIway.com (mgw1.meiway.com [212.73.210.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57AEE43E65 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 08:51:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from LConrad@Go2France.com) Received: from VirusGate.MEIway.com (virus-gate.meiway.com [212.73.210.91]) by mgw1-out.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id 56C4EEF908 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 17:37:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost.meiway.com [127.0.0.1]) by VirusGate.MEIway.com (Postfix) with SMTP id F40325D009 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 17:57:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.Go2France.com (ms1.meiway.com [212.73.210.73]) by VirusGate.MEIway.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9195E5D008 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 17:57:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: from LenConrad.Go2France.com [66.64.14.18] by mail.Go2France.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A5C649CE023E; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 17:59:02 +0200 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020920104738.0314ade8@mail.Go2France.com> X-Sender: LConrad@Go2France.com@mail.Go2France.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 10:51:31 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Len Conrad Subject: Re: time off by 30 minutes In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020920163348.024cecc0@mail.lusidor.com> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020920083918.03223cf0@mail.Go2France.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20020920072412.043b06f8@mail.Go2France.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 >Why dont you set it by using >date 200209201514 >and then use >ntpdate & ntpd >to keep it current afterward.. this is what I always have done, but it's not working on this machine: # killall ntp No matching processes were found # date 200209201048 Fri Sep 20 10:48:00 CDT 2002 # ll /etc/localtime lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 35 Sep 20 08:42 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago # ntpdate time.nist.gov 20 Sep 10:19:25 ntpdate[78703]: step time server 192.43.244.18 offset 1783.164410 sec # :((( >cheers! That TV show is cancelled until this problem is solved. Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message