Re: Setting The System Clock [Linux]

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 10/27/03 

Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 00:30:11 +0100

Peter T. Breuer <ptb@it.uc3m.es> wrote:
> Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> wrote:
> > Use ntp, I didn't had to do anything even the 'hwclock --systohc' would
> > have been done anyway by the system during a clean shutdown, looking
> > at /etc/sysconfig/clock and the halt init script.

> Careful with that, michael. Ntp won't correct a wrongness of more than
> a few seconds. The ntpd will die (deliberately) if you are further out
> than that. I don't recall the exact limit.

Yep, this is true and after being curious how it really works since I never cared
without problems.

As mostly, the answer was on my system and it has nothing to do with ntp...

man tzset

TZSET(3) Linux Programmer's Manual TZSET(3)

Thx, for pointing out!

BTW
nice way of telling look it up dude.;) 

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