Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:52:12 -0400 From: "Brian A. Seklecki" <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org> To: jekillen <jekillen@prodigy.net> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: using the date command Message-ID: <1191124332.5997.21.camel@new-host> In-Reply-To: <5e433b6210a52ae0220ae0a20d0353e1@prodigy.net> References: <5e433b6210a52ae0220ae0a20d0353e1@prodigy.net>
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To set time: $ sudo /usr/sbin/ntpdate pool.ntp.org 29 Sep 23:48:31 ntpdate[9404]: adjust time server 66.250.45.2 offset 0.001289 sec To date info about your timezone settings: $ zdump /etc/localtime /etc/localtime Sat Sep 29 23:49:19 2007 EDT Options: $ ls /usr/shaoneinfo/ | egrep -v "^d" total 78 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 755 Aug 22 11:11 CET -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 837 Aug 22 11:11 CST6CDT -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 679 Aug 22 11:11 EET -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 56 Aug 22 11:11 EST -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 837 Aug 22 11:11 EST5EDT [...] To set timezone: $ ln -s /share/zoneinfo/$WHATEVER /etc/localtime For you probably PST8PDT. For your best NTP experience, use OpenNTP from ports: /usr/ports/net/openntpd/ ~BAS On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 20:33 -0700, jekillen wrote: > Hello all; > I have built 4 machines and installed FreeBSD 6.0 in one and 6.2 > in the other three. They are all using the wrong date and time. > The last one (v6.2 on ecs mb with AMD64) is the worst. It is telling > me today is Jan 3 2003 PST (I am on the west coast and it is still PDT). > These machines are all web servers. So up until now this has not been > a big issue but a configuration of software is complaining that the > files > it creates have an older date than the files in the software bundle, > it is time to do something about it. So I am looking at man date and as > I interpret the instructions #date ccyymmddHHMM.ss (20079282027.00 or > 200709282027.00 for instance) is supposed to set the > clock to the current date. But when I run a command with the > current date and time in the above format I get the complaint that > the format string is wrong. > Can anyone be kind enough to give me a quick tutorial on this? > I will be looking seriously into using NTP, but for now I need to > get the date straight. I have entries in apache error log gener > ated by php scripts that are supposed to use its date command. > Thanks in advance for assistance. > Jeff K > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > >
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