From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 10 6:26:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hitchcock.woahnelly.net (p69-157.acedsl.com [66.114.69.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2A0B37B405 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 06:26:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (wes@localhost) by hitchcock.woahnelly.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3ADQX606416 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 09:26:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wes@woahnelly.net) Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 09:26:33 -0400 (EDT) From: wes chow To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: grr, stupid springforwardfallback (timed) In-Reply-To: <20020409221810.Y253-100000@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com> Message-ID: <20020410092606.E6378-100000@hitchcock.woahnelly.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message