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ralvy
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 Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 5:46 am Post subject: ntpdate and local time |
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| I'm not sure why this is a problem right now (didn't seem to be in the past), but now I notice that when ntpdate syncs my time, it's changed to UTC time. Where do I set things up to keep my time local? |
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jtaylor72
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 6:05 am Post subject: |
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/etc/rc.conf
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ralvy
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 7:12 am Post subject: |
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I didn't make all this clear. I have always had
in /etc/rc.conf. And I also have
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in /etc/timezone. But ntpdate seems to ignore this. I see no command line options to get it to honor my timezone stuff. |
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nonotme
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 8:00 am Post subject: |
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| ralvy wrote: | And I also have
| Code: | | America/Los_Angeles |
in /etc/timezone. But ntpdate seems to ignore this. I see no command line options to get it to honor my timezone stuff. |
to correctly set your time zone, you must create a symlink called /etc/localtime. try this
| Code: | | ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles /etc/localtime |
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ralvy
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 3:47 pm Post subject: |
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After I do that, do I still need /etc/timezone?
Also, did this change recently? I never had a symlink to /etc/localtime before and it always worked. |
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iamben
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 9:08 pm Post subject: |
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| you sure you never had one? its one of the steps in the install guide |
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ralvy
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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| iamben wrote: | | you sure you never had one? its one of the steps in the install guide |
Well, when I created that sym-link, the OS didn't complain about an existing one. And I didn't use the -f switch to force it. So I know it wasn't there. And it wasn't until the last few days that I noticed that ntpdate gave me UTC time.
I certainly don't remember ever creating that sym-link when I installed Gentoo last Sept/Oct.. |
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