From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 28 12:53:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA28844 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 May 1997 12:53:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from slintimates.com (slintimates.com [192.41.5.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA28838 for ; Wed, 28 May 1997 12:53:01 -0700 (PDT) From: mdmartin@playtexnet.com Received: from mail by slintimates.com; Wed, 28 May 1997 13:53:00 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199705281953.NAA05545@slintimates.com> Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 14:52:53 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FW: xntpd using UTC -Reply MIME-version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Mailer: TFS Gateway /222000000/222041311/222002476/222200315/ Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id MAA28840 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Didn't work. It looks like xntpd gets its idea of timezone from the startup config you set with tzsetup, and I can't find an option anywhere to set the time to UTC or GMT. You would think xntpd would read the TZ variable if it is set, but apparently it is ignored. ---------- From: ROBERTC@PII.COM -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Is your cmos set to localtime? If so then set you cmos to UTC, and remove the /etc/wall_cmos_clock file. (I haven't tried this myself.) [RC] >>> 05/23/97 01:04pm >>> I am setting up a FreeBSD box (2.1.7.1) as an xntpd server for our local net. I want people to be able to coordinate their Win95 PC's using AtomTime95 or some such utility. Using AtomTime, I am able to get time service from the FreeBSD box but it comes back as EST/EDT time when AtomTime is expecting UTC. I tried setting the default timezone in FreeBSD to UTC but could not find an option for it. I need some way to: 1) Set the FreeBSD box so that xntpd returns UTC time, either by setting UTC as the default time zone or configuring an offset into xntpd's answers. (Or some other option?) 2) Get a Win95 utility which can be set to expect EST/EDT time. 3) Or some other option? Thanks. Dan Martin Playtex Apparel