Daylight savings time.....

[Rick Altherr]

Honestly, we probably need to make an init script to sync the system time
to hardware on shutdown.
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Rick Altherr
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Ralph Crongeyer said:
> After I installed ntpd I couldn't get the time to update (this was
> yesterday  during D.S.T.). I found that I had to stop ntpd and then run
> ntpdate [server  name or ip] and the date was updated. ntpd was setup to
> run at boot. When I  rebooted the time was set back to 1hr behind again
> (It didn't set the  hardware clock). So I tried rdate and the command
> below which worked. So I  put the command in the bootmisc file. Is this
> wrong to do, in your opinion??
>
> Ralph
>
> On Monday 07 April 2003 01:42 pm, Steven Michalske wrote:
>> ntpd once close will poll and determine your machines drift
>> in the config file add a server b4 the other info ie
>> server clock.psu.edu
>>
>> and then since you manually set it it will now keep the time proper if
>> the delta is too much it will not sync, but i believe daylight savings
>> time is a flag from the servers
>>
>> hardkrash
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Monday 07 April 2003 5:47 am, Ralph Crongeyer wrote:
>> RC> For anyone intrested in this:
>> RC> lin rdate
>> RC> then in /etc/init.d/bootmisc
>> RC> enter:
>> RC> rdate -s 192.5.41.40 && hwclock --systohc
>> RC>
>> RC> works every boot which is good for my needs on a laptop.
>> RC>
>> RC> Thanks for all you guys help.
>> RC>
>> RC> BTW the ip is from the Time Service Dept., U.S. Naval Observatory,
>>  Washington, RC> DC, tick.usno.navy.mil.
>> RC>
>> RC> Ralph
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