From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 11 22:01:11 2011 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 6CBE7106566C for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:01:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-wy0-f182.google.com (mail-wy0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F31698FC0C for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:01:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyf19 with SMTP id 19so2968703wyf.13 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:01:10 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to :references:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=N4rr/d1bT37pgpecChstwc+TibjcV8FUNhvi/ucfbXw=; b=MbGbgndHpTqn5dTMhkMlAk5h6DbxSS+P7F8UGWTY6het9k71we5AaExwenYn7J247Q HXN9p4vde/1QKf5TVFRSJHk0zeTYU9HSDKvUUfQwfmAijXvkmqo7EBqOYLAwl/x38e+o RthOMCJy50jvph/CLMul/QVelZ5C6HCu6u1Os= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=F7uEkutzzTJaV7ylQk5IQw7fIeycO/RbuCvVc/o7woh2DGaEXtdKezAFkcN+OaE5N7 9qhU3qvAl7CAmZozB5RAIMr4fJDDcuCeZaQSxjpGla2NKnw5xc/vApbm6vaJotu0hJmP vKul91coIjkBzLoUf8xI/VTYh2zBZ6CpvdImk= Received: by 10.216.19.133 with SMTP id n5mr1012184wen.83.1297461669903; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:01:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (87-194-105-247.bethere.co.uk [87.194.105.247]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id r6sm609689weq.20.2011.02.11.14.01.08 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:01:09 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:01:06 +0000 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20110211220106.766288e5@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20110211221648.03c65a04@dijkstra> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.22.1; i386-portbld-freebsd8.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: system clock running 2h early although ntpd enabled 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: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:01:11 -0000 On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:13:43 -0800 David Brodbeck wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Christopher J. Ruwe > wrote: > > Since some weeks my local clock runs two hours early. > > My /etc/localtime is a copy of /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin > > and I have set both ntpd_enable="YES" and ntpd_sync_on_start="YES". > > ntpd has a sanity check -- if the clock is out by more than 1000 > seconds it will give up. So you may have to manually set the clock to > something close to correct before ntpd will handle it. Or pass ntpd > the "-g" flag to disable the initial sanity check, That's what ntpd_sync_on_start="YES" does.