Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 22:19:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Nathan Dorfman <nathan@senate.org> To: kent@erlang.ericsson.se Cc: darin@media-net.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, kent@erlang.ericsson.se Subject: Re: how do I set the time? Message-ID: <199707100219.WAA06711@limbo.senate.org> In-Reply-To: <199707100124.DAA03060@townsend.ericsson.se> from Kent Boortz at "Jul 10, 97 03:24:14 am"
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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 >
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