Re: Time

[CW Harris <charris@rtcmarketing.com>]

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 03:35:13PM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 21:12:34 +0200, Paul Akkermans
> <paulakkermans@wanadoo.nl> wrote:
> > I have just a simple problem. During installation of my Debian system I did not set the correct time on my Debian system. Does anybody know how I can do this without having to install the entire Debian system again? 
> 
> If you selected the wrong timezone, try tzselect .
> If you set the system clock incorrectly, you can fix it by sync'ing to
> a time server:
> 
> /usr/sbin/rdate -s your.favorite.ntp.server
> /sbin/hwclock --systohc
> 
> Search Google for "public NTP servers" to get a list of potential
> replacements for
> "your.favorite.ntp.server".  Only use Stratum-2 servers, though.

I believe pool.ntp.org has been set aside for this use.

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Chris Harris <charris@rtcmarketing.com>
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