Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:16:57 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: "Robert G." <rob5g@adelphia.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Timezone isn't setting to EST corectly, ntp doesn't help Message-ID: <4315C9E9.40109@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <4315C261.9080002@adelphia.net> References: <4315C261.9080002@adelphia.net>
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Robert G. wrote: > I'm connected to a remote machine located in NJ and ran > /usr/sbin/sysinstall and set the timezone to "Eastern Time", but the > clock is displaying 2:30PM or so when it is only 10:44AM here. > > I tried ntp but that didn't work as well. Does anyone have any idea > what's wrong? Your BIOS clock is probably set to keeping time in the local timezone rather than in GMT. ntpd won't correct a multi-hour offset without being nudged. You can run ntpdate -b to step the clock by the four hours, or use date to set it to something close by hand, and then run ntpd from there. -- -Chuck
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