Re: Fix current time

[Steve Rikli <sr%genyosha.net@localhost>]

On Mon, Sep 02, 2024 at 03:13:30PM +0000, Todd Gruhn wrote:
> I reset time to 13:10 -- my current time for EST is about
> 11:10 .
> 
> How do I reset this back to this time, and  at in EST

Timezone is set by the /etc/localtime file, which is typically a symlink
pointing to a time zone definition file in /usr/share/zoneinfo/.

E.g. for a system in the US on the west coast, you might have:

$ ls -la /etc/localtime 
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  39 Aug 31 21:39 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles

If you don't set the timezone during installation or with 'sysinst' at
some point, NetBSD defaults to UTC.

sysinst Utility menu has a selection for setting timezone, you can also
adjust the /etc/localtime symlink to your preference.

Note that changing the timezone doesn't actually change the clock itself,
merely the system's display of the time. If you want to change the clock
you could use the date(1) command to do it manually, run ntpdate / ntpd(8)
if you want the system to regularly sync with other time servers, etc.

cheers,
sr.