From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 6 07:42:35 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECDE716A401 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 07:42:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@rhavenn.net) Received: from smtp114.iad.emailsrvr.com (smtp114.iad.emailsrvr.com [207.97.245.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C836E13C428 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 07:42:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@rhavenn.net) Received: from arucard.int.rhavenn.net (rrcs-24-106-16-90.west.biz.rr.com [24.106.16.90]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: henrik@ecwwebworks.com) by relay1.r1.iad.emailsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 9636544C314; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 02:09:27 -0500 (EST) From: Henrik Hudson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 01:09:25 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <919429.12646.qm@web37312.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <919429.12646.qm@web37312.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200702060109.26240.lists@rhavenn.net> Cc: Alaa Alomari Subject: Re: question about BSD time X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: lists@rhavenn.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 07:42:36 -0000 On Monday 05 February 2007 08:11, Alaa Alomari sent a missive stating: > Dear sir; > I have a Unix BSD server, and i want to adjust the time of the server so > i have used the following command: $ sudo date 0702050402 > and the output is: > Mon Feb 5 04:02:00 EET 2007 > and when typing date command again, i have got the following output: > Mon Feb 5 09:38::51 EET 2007 > so would you please, tell me how can i fix the time (note: i am using the > root) Thank you for your attention. > Is it really off by 30 some minutes as well? or did you just run date 30 minutes later? As the other poster mentioned you either have a faulty time server in your network and the NTP daemon is picking it or your hardware clock is really messed up in which case you may wish to install NTP and have it auto-set your clock for you. Henrik Henrik -- Henrik Hudson lists@rhavenn.net ------------------------------ "God, root, what is difference?" Pitr; UF (http://www.userfriendly.org/)