From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 30 03:52:37 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E782316A418 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 03:52:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org) Received: from mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com (mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.199]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DC1813C45D for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 03:52:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-71-245-176-242.pitbpa.fios.verizon.net [71.245.176.242]) (AUTH: LOGIN seklecki, TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,128bits,RC4-MD5) by wingspan with esmtp; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:52:33 -0400 id 0005642D.46FF1D81.00001787 From: "Brian A. Seklecki" To: jekillen In-Reply-To: <5e433b6210a52ae0220ae0a20d0353e1@prodigy.net> References: <5e433b6210a52ae0220ae0a20d0353e1@prodigy.net> Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:52:12 -0400 Message-Id: <1191124332.5997.21.camel@new-host> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.3 (2.10.3-4.fc7) Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: using the date command X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 03:52:38 -0000 To set time: $ sudo /usr/sbin/ntpdate pool.ntp.org 29 Sep 23:48:31 ntpdate[9404]: adjust time server 66.250.45.2 offset 0.001289 sec To date info about your timezone settings: $ zdump /etc/localtime /etc/localtime Sat Sep 29 23:49:19 2007 EDT Options: $ ls /usr/shaoneinfo/ | egrep -v "^d" total 78 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 755 Aug 22 11:11 CET -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 837 Aug 22 11:11 CST6CDT -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 679 Aug 22 11:11 EET -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 56 Aug 22 11:11 EST -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 837 Aug 22 11:11 EST5EDT [...] To set timezone: $ ln -s /share/zoneinfo/$WHATEVER /etc/localtime For you probably PST8PDT. For your best NTP experience, use OpenNTP from ports: /usr/ports/net/openntpd/ ~BAS On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 20:33 -0700, jekillen wrote: > Hello all; > I have built 4 machines and installed FreeBSD 6.0 in one and 6.2 > in the other three. They are all using the wrong date and time. > The last one (v6.2 on ecs mb with AMD64) is the worst. It is telling > me today is Jan 3 2003 PST (I am on the west coast and it is still PDT). > These machines are all web servers. So up until now this has not been > a big issue but a configuration of software is complaining that the > files > it creates have an older date than the files in the software bundle, > it is time to do something about it. So I am looking at man date and as > I interpret the instructions #date ccyymmddHHMM.ss (20079282027.00 or > 200709282027.00 for instance) is supposed to set the > clock to the current date. But when I run a command with the > current date and time in the above format I get the complaint that > the format string is wrong. > Can anyone be kind enough to give me a quick tutorial on this? > I will be looking seriously into using NTP, but for now I need to > get the date straight. I have entries in apache error log gener > ated by php scripts that are supposed to use its date command. > Thanks in advance for assistance. > Jeff K > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > >