system time

[Richard Villa]

I GOT THE TIME CORRECTED BY USING TIMECONFIG.

the ONLY PROBLEM, IS THAT SPEAKUP HAS TROUBLE READING EXACTLY WHAT SELECTION
YOU HAVE SELECTED.

Richard

If you are going to burn all of your bridges, you better be able to walk on
water.

----- Original Message -----
From: <jwantz at babel.hpcc.noaa.gov>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 8:57 PM
Subject: Re: system time


> Hi Charley,
> Yes, there is--rdate, ntpdate and netdate to name three of them.  That's
> not what he wanted.  In most distros there is a file called
> /etc/localtime.  It sets what time zone your system is using.  The file
> is not in plain text.  The program in Redhat to manipulate this file is
> timeconfig.  I use a script that I put in /etc/cron.daily that uses
> netdate to query the 4
> nearest NIST servers to set the system time.  It then calls hwclock to
> set the hardware clock.
> On Thu, 10 Oct 2002,
> Charles Crawford wrote:
>
> > I thought there was a program to have the system clock set by NIST.
> >
> > -- charlie Crawford.
> >   At 02:49 PM 10/10/02 -0400, you wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >You can run timeconfig and up and down arrow your time choices.  When
> > >you find  the correct time setting you can tab and press enter on the
OK
> > >button.  It seems to be exactly the same program that is called during
> > >install.  Of course you must be root to run the program.
> > >
> > >      Jim Wantz WB0TFK
> > >On Thu, 10 Oct
> > >2002, Richard Villa wrote:
> > >
> > > > While installing RH 8, I messed up my time setting.
> > > >
> > > > Does someone know where the system stores the parameters for setting
the
> > > > time?  It must be an offset value which tells the system how many
hours to
> > > > add or subtract from GMT time.
> > > >
> > > > Richard
> > > >
> > > > If you are going to burn all of your bridges, you better be able to
walk on
> > > > water.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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