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Date:      Tue, 21 Nov 2006 10:45:24 -0800
From:      Brian <bri@sonicboom.org>
To:        Neil Short <neshort@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD date drifts significantly
Message-ID:  <45634944.4080706@sonicboom.org>
In-Reply-To: <39854.56921.qm@web56511.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
References:  <39854.56921.qm@web56511.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

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Neil Short wrote:
> my FreeBSD date drifts out of sync with the system
> date.
>
> When I set it, it is absolutely correct and matches
> the system (CMOS) date. I then reboot and - shezam!
> it's jumped 12 hours forward. Reboot again - another
> 12 hour jump ... until the FreeBSD date is about 2 and
> a half days beyond today's date - and the CMOS date.
>
> When I set up the system I said that the system clock
> is NOT set to UTC - but just to be sure, I went back
> into sysinstall and re-set the time zone the same way
> (MST - Arizona).
>
> I suspect this has something to do with maybe the
> server that is synchronizing my time; but I don't
> recall how to synchronize my time with an up-stream
> server. Can't find documentation on it either.
>
> Any pointers?
>
>
>  
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Find some servers on www.ntp.org that are local to you.
Then ntpdate servername will adjust the date
I dont think ntpd is enabled by default, to get it running;
    add ntpd_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf
    edit /etc/ntp.conf to add a couple servers
    then either /etc/rc.d/ntpd start or reboot
   



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