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> setenv TZ GMT
>   look at the directory /usr/share/zoneinfo for the list of valid
>   time zones.
> 
> After you set the TZ you will have to reset the date,
>    date 1422   to get 2:22 pm in the new TZ
> 
> My suggestion is to,
> 
> a) change the TZ in the root enviornment.
> 
> b) update your /etc/rc.conf file with ntpdate
>    by adding
> 
> ntpdate_flags="valid_timeserver"
> ntpdate_enable="YES"
> 
> get the timeserver from man ntpdate

That did the trick. xntpd seems to work better though, which is what we
use to keep time synched on all FreeBSD boxes.


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