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From: Nathan Dorfman <nathan@senate.org>
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Subject: Re: how do I set the time?
In-Reply-To: <199707100124.DAA03060@townsend.ericsson.se> from Kent Boortz at "Jul 10, 97 03:24:14 am"
To: kent@erlang.ericsson.se
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 22:19:30 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: darin@media-net.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, kent@erlang.ericsson.se
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You can have cron run "ntpdate tick.usno.navy.mil" every midnight or so. tick
and tock are U.S. military atomic clock sites (pretty accurate :>).

> 
> Run "date" with an argument as root. See "man date". A small extract
> 
>      The command:
> 
>            date 8506131627
> 
>      sets the date to ``June 13, 1985, 4:27 PM''.
> 
>      The command:
> 
>            date 1432
> 
>      sets the time to 2:32 PM, without modifying the date.
> 
> If you have a portable that you sometimes connect in a network and
> want to set the time to match theirs you can connect to a "time
> server". I use
> 
>   % ntpdate erlang
> 
> because "erlang" runs "xntd".
> 
> /kgb
>