My Clock Is Confused

[Rejean Proulx]

Those using debian can try ntpdate.  It is a simple package that does the
trick.

 Rejean Proulx
Visit my family at http://interfree.ca
MSN is: rejp at rogers.com
Ham License VA3REJ

----- 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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