From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 23 1:17:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from typhoon.mail.pipex.net (typhoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 319B414BE5 for ; Sat, 23 Oct 1999 01:17:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 20895 invoked from network); 23 Oct 1999 08:17:08 -0000 Received: from useras28.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.137.32) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 23 Oct 1999 08:17:08 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id JAA06450; Sat, 23 Oct 1999 09:17:24 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 09:17:24 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Shawn Ramsey Cc: Jeff Gray , Shawn Ramsey , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TIme Zone? Message-ID: <19991023091724.B6233@marder-1> References: <37C0A6B7.57425CEB@megadeth.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <37C0A6B7.57425CEB@megadeth.org> Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 06:41:11PM -0700, Shawn Ramsey wrote: > > 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. > Subject: Re: TIme Zone? From: Shawn Ramsey Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 18:41:11 -0700 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ To: Jeff Gray Cc: Shawn Ramsey , questions@freebsd.org Hmm, didn't work *that* well ;-) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message