On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 08:40:02PM +0300, Dan Fruehauf wrote: > I've been googling for a while and couldnt find it, so here i am. > for some reasons i prefer not to go into, i have to synchronize clocks between > machines where one machine has it's clock on GMT and the other doesnt (it's > clock is GMT + x hours forward / backward). > my question is, is it possible to configure ntpd (or any other ntp client) to > fetch the time from some distant ntp server and to apply an offset (like -1 > hour, -2 hours, or something similar) on the time it recieves from the > server? >
Here is what I might have tried on the distro I am familiar with, which is Debian: 1. The machine which has its clock set to GMT just run an ntp client as usual. 2. On the other machine I would still run an ntp client as before. However I would also do the following: 2.1. Tell the machine its clock is not set to GMT by putting the appropriate value in /etc/default/rcS. I am not sure who actually uses it. 2.2 Make sure hwclock (from the hwtools?) doesn't use a GMT clock. I think that this is related to 2.1. 2.3 Set the time zone of the machine to the desired GMT +/- x hours. Disclaimer: taken of the top of my head, haven't tried that, not sure about the details, YMMV, assume that you can set the timezone of the machine as you wish, and so forth. -- "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." -- George Bernard Shaw (sent by shaulk @ actcom . net . il) ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
