On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 11:42:19 +0000 Matthew Seaman <m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
> On 11/02/2011 21:16, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: > > Since some weeks my local clock runs two hours early. > > My /etc/localtime is a copy of /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin > > and I have set both ntpd_enable="YES" and ntpd_sync_on_start="YES". > > My ntp.conf consists of > > > > server ntp1.ptb.de prefer > > server ntp2.ptb.de > > restrict default ignore > > restrict 127.0.0.1 > > > > Surely, I must be missing something. Does anybody have an idea? > > > > Sounds like your CMOS clock is set to local wallclock time, but you > haven't got the /etc/wall_cmos_clock file. Or vice-versa: your CMOS > clock is set to UTC, but you've got the wall_cmos_clock file. See > adjkerntz(8) for details. The CMOS clock is what drives the time/date > display shown in the system BIOS, and it's separate from the clock > used for the system time when the OS is running. OK, thank you, that was indeed the case, i.e., the CMOS clock was set to local time. I do not know why, usually I set it to GMT, so I never did bother to check. Turned out I should have had this time. > [snip] > > Personally, if the machine is dedicated to running FreeBSD (or FreeBSD > and other unixoid OSes) I'd set the CMOS clock to UTC[*] It is now. Thanks and cheers, -- Christopher J. Ruwe TZ GMT + 1
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