The files of relevance are: /etc/sysconfig/clock and /etc/localtime. "/etc/sysconfig/clock" can be modified by hand, and then use the command "/usr/sbin/timeconfig" to update /etc/localtime.
The "date" command is used to set your system time. A lot of people run a "time daemon" such as xntp to keep all their servers synchronized. But if you only have a few servers or the time issue is important but okay if each server drifts a minute or two, you can do what I do and designate a single server as your "master time server," configure it to use xinetd for the "time" service at a certain window each night, and configure a cron job on your clients to run "rdate -s servername" at this time each night. The above will set and keep your system time. If you want to make sure your hardware clock is synchronized with the system time, you use the "hwclock" command. You can set the hardware clock to the system time, or vice versa. Keep in mind that during system start up (booting), the hwclock command is run from "/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit" and depending on how it's run it may override what you're doing by hand. mike On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 17:10, Suresh Babu A. [IT Engineer] wrote: > Hello All, > > The problem occurs occasionaly and further it gets resolved on it own !!! > > Suresh A. > > On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Jeff Kinz wrote: > > > Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 16:59:07 -0400 > > From: Jeff Kinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Time Stamp Problem > > > > On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 01:22:08AM +0530, Suresh Babu A. [IT Engineer] wrote: > > > Dear All, > > > > > > While creating a file in my Linux the time stamp for the file shows "30th > > > Sep 1960", because of this i couldn't view the file in Windows OS. This > > > problem occurs occasionaly. How to resolve it ? > > > > > > You system time/date is set to zero. > > > > You can use the "date" command to set it to the correct time. > > > > date [MMDDhhmm] > > > > Like this: date 07081655 > > > > for July 8, 4:55 PM > > > > With no arguments date displays the current time. > > > > -- > > Jeff Kinz, Open-PC, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > copyright 2003. Use is restricted. Any use is an > > acceptance of the offer at http://www.kinz.org/policy.html. > > Don't forget to change your password often. > > > > > > -- > > Psyche-list mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list > > > > > Thanks > > SureshA > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list -- Michael Martinez Linux System Administrator Marlaw Systems ISTM/CSREES/USDA (202) 720-6223 -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
