Re: Timezone isn't setting to EST corectly, ntp doesn't help
From: Chuck Swiger (cswiger_at_mac.com)
Date: 08/31/05
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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:16:57 -0400 To: "Robert G." <rob5g@adelphia.net>
Robert G. wrote:
> I'm connected to a remote machine located in NJ and ran
> /usr/sbin/sysinstall and set the timezone to "Eastern Time", but the
> clock is displaying 2:30PM or so when it is only 10:44AM here.
>
> I tried ntp but that didn't work as well. Does anyone have any idea
> what's wrong?
Your BIOS clock is probably set to keeping time in the local timezone rather
than in GMT.
ntpd won't correct a multi-hour offset without being nudged. You can run
ntpdate -b to step the clock by the four hours, or use date to set it to
something close by hand, and then run ntpd from there.
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