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Re: how to set correct time?



Am Thu, 19 April 2001 schrieb Rory Campbell-Lange:

> I foolishly don't know how to set the correct time for my system clock.
> The timezone is correctly set to London/England, but the time is about 6
> hours out (date reports the time in 'BST' - I presume this is "British
> Standard Time").

Probably "British Summer Time" (GMT+1, I think the Americans call it 
daylight saving time).

Some (all?) ISPs run a system which your system can query to get 
the 'correct' time (ntp), so I'd agree with the other poster who seemed to suggest using ntp. http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/ seems quite 
informative.



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