silly question - what is the rawhide/9beta+ way to set my timezone

[Scott Robbins]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:30:16PM +1000, David Timms wrote:

> Actually, this may have never worked eg:  I think I may have previously needed 
> to service ntpd stop, let the applet fix time, then service ntpd start.

In general, one uses ntpdate to fix big time slews (like the 5 hour one
mentioned) and then ntp.  (There's an ntpd flag to tell it to make huge
corrections in one shot, but it *seems* to me--I could be wrong, and too
lazy to check right now--that it's considered best practice to use
ntpdate once to correct the big time slew, then start ntpd.

(For those unfamiliar with it, ntpdate requires a server as argument,
e.g., ntpdate mytimeserver)

So, your memory is probably correct.  :)


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