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
ntpdate is deprecated, you should use "ntpd -q" instead if you want ntpd
to set the time once then exit. From ntpdate(8):
Note: The functionality of this program is now available in the ntpd(8)
program. See the -q command line option in the ntpd(8) page. After a
suitable period of mourning, the ntpdate utility is to be retired from
this distribution.
Also, ntpd wil refuse to update the time if the delta is more than 1000s
by default, but you can use the -g option to override this. To set the
date to within a reasonable delta, use something like "date
200709282027". If you want to set the time more accurately using NTP,
edit /etc/ntp.conf and add "server pool.ntp.org" to it. Save it then
run "ntpd -q". If you need to configure the time zone, an easy way to
do this is to run sysinstall and select "Configuration --> Time Zone".
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
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
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