how to adjust server time

[sander815]

our server is off by 11 minutes from my local time, how can i adjust it?

does it also adjust automatically from winter to summer time?

[ProWebUK]

rdate -s time.nist.gov

Chris

[nobaloney]

Whether or not your server will adjust automatically for Daylight Savings Time will depend on the OS and on how it was installed.

Red Hat Linux will automatically adjust for Daylight Savings Time if it was set up with the hardware clock set for ZT (GMT). Otherwise it won't.

I guess you'll find out tomorrow morning :) .

Jeff

[neorder]

i use this command:

date 010115302004

to set date to jan 1, 15:30pam and 2004.

[nobaloney]

On what OS, neorder?

On RHL I use:

date -s "Tue Apr 6 10:08:05 PDT 2004"

That sets the software clock.

The hardware clock is set from the software clock on system shutdown.

Jeff

[ProWebUK]

Originally posted by jlasman
On what OS, neorder?

On RHL I use:

date -s "Tue Apr 6 10:08:05 PDT 2004"

That sets the software clock.

The hardware clock is set from the software clock on system shutdown.

Jeff

Date works, but wont actually change the TZ, even if the one you specify is not what its using... it randomly chnages between 3 main ones for me, i usually use tzselect to get the time sync then rdate to sync it every now and then, or even put it in a cron job.

You can also set the hardware clock without shutting down by running:

set HW clock using system clock
hwclock --systohc

Set system clock using HW clock:
hwclock --hctosys

and also set the HW clock manually...

You may want to read through the manual pages if you wish to find out anymore :)

Chris

[Firehosting]

Originally posted by jlasman
On what OS, neorder?

On RHL I use:

date -s "Tue Apr 6 10:08:05 PDT 2004"

That sets the software clock.

The hardware clock is set from the software clock on system shutdown.

Jeff

What's the command with FreeBSD?
Above wont work :(

Thanx,
Marcel.