Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:16:26 -0700 From: jekillen <jekillen@prodigy.net> To: "Brian A. Seklecki" <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: using the date command Message-ID: <aac92f114b1db2ad03f3411516f6524d@prodigy.net> In-Reply-To: <1191124332.5997.21.camel@new-host> References: <5e433b6210a52ae0220ae0a20d0353e1@prodigy.net> <1191124332.5997.21.camel@new-host>
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On Sep 29, 2007, at 8:52 PM, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: > To set time: > > $ sudo /usr/sbin/ntpdate pool.ntp.org > 29 Sep 23:48:31 ntpdate[9404]: adjust time server 66.250.45.2 offset > 0.001289 sec > > To date info about your timezone settings: > > $ zdump /etc/localtime > /etc/localtime Sat Sep 29 23:49:19 2007 EDT > > Options: > > $ ls /usr/shaoneinfo/ | egrep -v "^d" > total 78 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 755 Aug 22 11:11 CET > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 837 Aug 22 11:11 CST6CDT > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 679 Aug 22 11:11 EET > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 56 Aug 22 11:11 EST > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 837 Aug 22 11:11 EST5EDT > [...] > > To set timezone: > > $ ln -s /share/zoneinfo/$WHATEVER /etc/localtime > > For you probably PST8PDT. > > For your best NTP experience, use OpenNTP from > ports: /usr/ports/net/openntpd/ > > ~BAS Thanks for the info, very helpful; Jeff K > > > On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 20:33 -0700, jekillen wrote: >> Hello all; >> I have built 4 machines and installed FreeBSD 6.0 in one and 6.2 >> in the other three. They are all using the wrong date and time. >> The last one (v6.2 on ecs mb with AMD64) is the worst. It is telling >> me today is Jan 3 2003 PST (I am on the west coast and it is still >> PDT). >> These machines are all web servers. So up until now this has not been >> a big issue but a configuration of software is complaining that the >> files >> it creates have an older date than the files in the software bundle, >> it is time to do something about it. So I am looking at man date and >> as >> I interpret the instructions #date ccyymmddHHMM.ss (20079282027.00 or >> 200709282027.00 for instance) is supposed to set the >> clock to the current date. But when I run a command with the >> current date and time in the above format I get the complaint that >> the format string is wrong. >> Can anyone be kind enough to give me a quick tutorial on this? >> I will be looking seriously into using NTP, but for now I need to >> get the date straight. I have entries in apache error log gener >> ated by php scripts that are supposed to use its date command. >> Thanks in advance for assistance. >> Jeff K >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> >> >> >> >> >
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