My Clock Is Confused

[Igor Gueths]

One timeserver you can use is time-nw.nist.gov.

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Rejean Proulx wrote:

> I was looking for NTP and couldn't remember what those darn time servers are
> called.  Now that I am armed with this information, I'll look for a package.
> It must be age or something.  You forget the stupidest things.
>
>  Rejean Proulx
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> MSN is: rejp at rogers.com
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <gena-j at ntlworld.com>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 4:09 PM
> Subject: Re: My Clock Is Confused
>
>
> > Hi
> >
> > Or you could simply install a package that gets the time from a ntp
> > server such as chrony or ntp.  There are plenty of open access servers
> > around the world.
> >
> > Gena
> >
> > >Yeah, the syntax of date is pretty weird.
> > >
> > >In a nutshell, you want to pass 8 digits to the date command
> > >Digits 1 and 2 specify the month (I.E. 10 for October).
> > >
> > >Digits 3 and 4 specify the day (I.E. 06 for the 6th day of the month).
> > >
> > >Digits 5 and 6 specify the hour (I.E. 14 for 2 P.M.) (remember that
> > >you're dealing with a 24 hour clock here). It's possible to specify
> > >the hour in 12 hour format with an A or P at the end of the number
> > >string, but I've always used 24 hour format for this, so haven't tried
> > >the A or P myself.
> > >
> > >The final 7 and 8 digits specify the minute (I.E. 40 for the 40th
> > >minute).
> > >
> > >So, for example, if you wanted to set your clock to October 06th,
> > >14:40, you would do as root
> > >"date 10061440"
> > >and that should do it, preserving whatever time zone you've got set at
> > >the time. What I mean by that, is that only the hour/minute will
> > >change, but your time zone won't.
> > >
> > >Wonder why they didn't implement the date and time changes separately
> > >in unix, would have sure made things less confusing for newbies to
> > >learn.
> > >
> > >Hth.
> > >
> > >Greg
> > >
> > >P.S., once you've got this set, you won't need to worry about it,
> > >assuming your cmos battery has charge of course to keep the clock
> > >going when your machine is off.
> > >
> > >On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 01:38:50PM -0400, Rejean Proulx wrote:
> > >> OK, I've done that and it was correct.  Now I have to reset my clock.
> I ran
> > >> base-config, just the first part of it and told it that my clock is not
> UTC.
> > >> Now I am 4 hours behind.  If I tell it my hardware clock is UTC then it
> puts
> > >> me 4 hours ahead.  How to I reset the clock to the right time and run a
> > >> program to keep it that way?  I tried the date command and the
> parameters
> > >> are strange.  I haven't been able to get it right yet.
> > >>
> > >>  Rejean Proulx
> > >> Visit my family at http://interfree.ca
> > >> MSN is: rejp at rogers.com
> > >> Ham License VA3REJ
> > >>
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