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Date:      Tue, 21 Nov 2006 12:50:01 -0600
From:      Eric <heli@mikestammer.com>
To:        Neil Short <neshort@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD date drifts significantly
Message-ID:  <45634A59.3010707@mikestammer.com>
In-Reply-To: <39854.56921.qm@web56511.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
References:  <39854.56921.qm@web56511.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

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Neil Short wrote:
> my FreeBSD date drifts out of sync with the system
> date.
>
> When I set it, it is absolutely correct and matches
> the system (CMOS) date. I then reboot and - shezam!
> it's jumped 12 hours forward. Reboot again - another
> 12 hour jump ... until the FreeBSD date is about 2 and
> a half days beyond today's date - and the CMOS date.
>
> When I set up the system I said that the system clock
> is NOT set to UTC - but just to be sure, I went back
> into sysinstall and re-set the time zone the same way
> (MST - Arizona).
>
> I suspect this has something to do with maybe the
> server that is synchronizing my time; but I don't
> recall how to synchronize my time with an up-stream
> server. Can't find documentation on it either.
>
> Any pointers?
>   

man ntpd

has your answers. my /etc/ntp.conf looks like:

server us.pool.ntp.org
server 0.pool.ntp.org
server 1.pool.ntp.org
driftfile /var/db/ntp.drift

things stay synced up tight on my machine



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