Re: Setting the Clock


Subject: Re: Setting the Clock
From: Scott Johnson (sjohnson@gci.net)
Date: Wed Nov 21 2001 - 18:19:20 AKST


ntp.gci.net is another local one

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom" <thogland@alaskatech.org>
To: "Dan Zachary at KRSA" <linux@krsa.net>
Cc: "Alaska Linux" <AKLUG@aklug.org>
Sent: 21 November, 2001 17:54
Subject: Re: Setting the Clock

>
> On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Dan Zachary at KRSA wrote:
> > Using SAMBA
> >
> > In Windows and other MSLan software, you can set the local clock by
typing
> > net time \\servername /set /yes.
> >
> > Is there a similar command for linux so that you can set the local clock
to
> > that of another machine on the network?
>
> I use 'rdate -s <timeserver>' to set it, then 'hwclock --systohc' to sync
> the clocks. Closest timeserver that I can connect to seems to be
> ntp.alaska.edu (time,nist.gov is offline, apparently).
>
>



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