From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 21 23:07:20 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id XAA26196 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 21 Oct 1995 23:07:20 -0700 Received: from MediaCity.com (root@easy1.mediacity.com [205.216.172.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA26191 for ; Sat, 21 Oct 1995 23:07:18 -0700 Received: (from brian@localhost) by MediaCity.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id XAA14985; Sat, 21 Oct 1995 23:07:49 -0700 From: Brian Litzinger Message-Id: <199510220607.XAA14985@MediaCity.com> Subject: Re: Time different on each boot To: jbarrm@panix.com (Barry Masterson) Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1995 23:07:49 -0700 (PDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Barry Masterson" at Oct 21, 95 05:38:49 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1022 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > I've finally installed FreeBSD with a partitioning setup I like. With > each install, the timezone setup has never been correct. It always asked > if it 'looked acceptable', or something like that. At the time it did not > matter. > Now that I finally have a partitioning setup I like, I would like to > settle this time thing. 'Date' always displays a different time with > each re-boot. It could be 4 hours slow, 12 hours slow, it's different > with each boot. > > My system does not run 24 hours a day. I start it when needed. Does > this effect the setting of the time? Are their any lines I should move > in the rc.* scripts? I've long had the same problem with many FreeBSD machines. I finally came up with the following solution: Set the timezone to whatever it is suppose to be. in /etc/rc.local use ntpdate to get the correct time from a time server. Now things work fine. Never did get the right time out of a machine no matter how much I played with it. Brian Litzinger brian@Mediacity.com