Re: time is 5 hours ahead (using ntp)

[Joe Block <jpb@creol.ucf.edu>]

"Brian J. Stults" wrote:
> I'm using ntp and it's working just fine.  The problem for me is that
> the time is always 5 hours ahead of what it should be.  I think this is
> something in the kernel settings, right?  I set it to report GMT or UTP
> or something, and I'm in the EST zone.  Can someone tell me how to
> switch that back?

Make sure your /etc/timezone is set up properly.  On my machine,
/etc/timezone contains
EST5EDT

I'm using tick.usno.navy.mil and tock.usno.navy.mil for my timeservers
in ntp.conf

jpb
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