system time

[jwantz at babel.hpcc.noaa.gov]

yES, i KNOW--BUT AS i RECALL THE FIRST OF THE TWO SELECTIONS SPOKEN IS 
THE CORRECT ONE.

     jIM wANTZ wb0tfk
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Richard Villa wrote:

> 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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