From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 12 19:20:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3686137B424 for ; Sat, 12 May 2001 19:20:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4D2Kgv11289; Sat, 12 May 2001 21:20:42 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 21:20:42 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: "G. Jason Middleton" Cc: Questions list Subject: Re: ntpdate question Message-ID: <20010512212042.A4317@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.17i In-Reply-To: ; from "G. Jason Middleton" on Sat May 12 19:45:11 GMT 2001 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (May 12), G. Jason Middleton said: > I am in baltimore maryland where the time is EST. However when i use any > local ntp servers they set my time one hour behind what it actually > is.....why is this? > > here is how i am using ntpdate: > ntpdate time-b-nist.gov > > i have tried other servers as well and get the same outcome. one hour > behind the correct time. Your timezone setting on your computer is set wrong. Ntp uses UTC so it is notcate what timezome you're in. Run "tzsetup" to change your timezone. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message