Re: DST/ntp problems
hi Lukas,
On 03-04-10 21:45 +0200, Lukas Ruf wrote:
> * Kenneth Dombrowski <kenneth@ylayali.net> [2003-04-10 20:55]:
> > On the laptop, I tried to manually adjust the time with
> > # date -s 'Thu Apr 10 13:00:00 EST 2003'
>
> have you tried adjusting the time with
> ntpdate <your_time_server>
> before starting ntpd?
I had tried it on the Woody box. I just tried it on the sid laptop
before replying. Then the two were at least broken the same way:
# ntpq
ntpq> pe
remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter
==============================================================================
filbert.cc.colu gnomon.cc.colum 2 u 13 64 1 34.752 -2.343 0.004
time.nist.gov .ACTS. 1 u 14 64 1 69.988 -3.463 0.004
ntpq> exit
# date
Thu Apr 10 15:51:32 EST 2003
but by all other clocks, that should've been 16:51:32
I ran tzselect just to be sure, it ended with this:
The following information has been given:
United States
Eastern Time
Therefore TZ='America/New_York' will be used.
Local time is now: Thu Apr 10 16:52:32 EDT 2003.
Universal Time is now: Thu Apr 10 20:52:32 UTC 2003.
Is the above information OK?
1) Yes
2) No
#? 1
You can make this change permanent for yourself by appending the line
TZ='America/New_York'; export TZ
to the file '.profile' in your home directory; then log out and log in
again.
so I tried it..
kenneth@enlil:~$ date
Thu Apr 10 16:04:58 EST 2003
kenneth@enlil:~$ vi .profile
(file had to be created)
kenneth@enlil:~$ source .profile
kenneth@enlil:~$ date
Thu Apr 10 17:07:57 EDT 2003
so I guess that kind of points more to the problem, but given:
kenneth@enlil:~$ cat /etc/timezone
EST
I don't understand why it's necessary.
I'll go ahead and try exporting TZ from /etc/profile to make it the
system default. Will that effect daemons and cron and anything else that
writes to /var/log though?
Anyway, thanks for pointing me in the right direction,
Kenneth
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