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Date:      Wed, 10 Apr 2002 09:26:33 -0400 (EDT)
From:      wes chow <wes@woahnelly.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: grr, stupid springforwardfallback (timed)
Message-ID:  <20020410092606.E6378-100000@hitchcock.woahnelly.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020409221810.Y253-100000@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com>

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Is this what you mean?

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ntp.html


Wes


On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Peter Leftwich wrote:

> Agh.  It seems my box gets confused between its CMOS (motherboard
> battery-preserved date and time) and the OS's time/adjkerntz/timezone/timed/ntpdate/etc/etc/rc.conf!
>
> >:-(
>
> {Well, according to my box it is 22:20 PDT, whereas it is really 23:20 as I
> write this sentence.}
>
> prompt$ grep -i time /etc/rc.conf
> ###  Important initial Boot-time options  ####################
> tcp_keepalive="YES"		# Enable stale TCP connection timeout (or NO).
> nfs_access_cache="2"		# Client cache timeout in seconds
> ### Network Time Services options: ###
> timed_enable="NO"		# Run the time daemon (or NO).
> timed_flags=""			# Flags to timed (if enabled).
> ntpdate_enable="YES"		# Run ntpdate to sync time on boot (or NO).
> xntpd_enable="NO"		# Run ntpd Network Time Protocol (or NO).
> nis_ypset_enable="NO"		# Run ypset at boot time (or NO).
> nis_ypxfrd_enable="NO"		# Run rpc.ypxfrd at boot time (or NO).
> nis_yppasswdd_enable="NO"	# Run rpc.yppasswdd at boot time (or NO).
> blanktime="300"		# blank time (in seconds) or "NO" to turn it off.
>
> Is there an all-in-one-peace-of-mind daemon to run to guarantee the
> correct, accurate time?  Actually, are there two daemons to run -- so that
> the box knows its GMT offset *and* the current time in GMT from a time
> server?
>
> Thanks all, from Peter, at 22:22 PDT, oops, 23:22 PDT
>
> PS. FWIW, I think 'daylight-savings' should've ENDED after Y2K, dumb govt!
>
> --
> Peter Leftwich
> President & Founder
> Video2Video Services
> Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA
> +1-413-403-9555
>
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