Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1995 23:07:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Litzinger <brian@MediaCity.com> To: jbarrm@panix.com (Barry Masterson) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time different on each boot Message-ID: <199510220607.XAA14985@MediaCity.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951021172747.14689A-100000@panix.com> from "Barry Masterson" at Oct 21, 95 05:38:49 pm
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> > I've finally installed FreeBSD with a partitioning setup I like. With > each install, the timezone setup has never been correct. It always asked > if it 'looked acceptable', or something like that. At the time it did not > matter. > Now that I finally have a partitioning setup I like, I would like to > settle this time thing. 'Date' always displays a different time with > each re-boot. It could be 4 hours slow, 12 hours slow, it's different > with each boot. > > My system does not run 24 hours a day. I start it when needed. Does > this effect the setting of the time? Are their any lines I should move > in the rc.* scripts? I've long had the same problem with many FreeBSD machines. I finally came up with the following solution: Set the timezone to whatever it is suppose to be. in /etc/rc.local use ntpdate to get the correct time from a time server. Now things work fine. Never did get the right time out of a machine no matter how much I played with it. Brian Litzinger brian@Mediacity.com
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