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Date:      Wed, 5 Jun 2019 10:44:59 -0400 (EDT)
From:      doug <doug@fledge.watson.org>
To:        "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ntpd configutration -- a small suggestion from the peanut gallery
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.20.1906051039050.47760@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <48793.1559715528@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
References:  <48793.1559715528@segfault.tristatelogic.com>

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On Tue, 4 Jun 2019, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:

>
> During install of my fresh new 12.0-RELEASE system, I was asked
> if I wanted to enable ntpd.  I clicked the little box to enable
> that.
>
> Now I have the system up and running, and yesa, the date/time isn't
> set right.... off by several hours.
>
> I feel sure that I'll be able to figure out how to get ntpd properly
> enabled & configured, but I would just like to offer, hunbly, to the
> Powers That Be, that it would be Nice if ntpd, once enabled during
> install, just worked, you know, right outta the box.

Some easy things: Make sure ntpd started okay; next check the time zone and run 
tzsetup if it's wrong; add [ntpd_sync_on_start="YES"] to your rc.conf





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