Subject: Re: system clock time
To: None <jbyler@MIT.EDU>
From: Christopher J Mason <cmason+@CMU.EDU>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/31/1996 11:27:34
I had similar problems.
Excerpts from internet.computing.netbsd.port-mac68k: 31-Oct-96 system
clock time by jbyler@MIT.EDU
> Here's my situation. The clock is set correctly in MacOS. My
> location is also set correctly in the MacOS Map control panel. And I
> have put a link to the correct time zone in /etc/localtime. Given
> this situation, the unix system clock (output of 'date'; timestamps on
> files) is several hours off. If I point /etc/localtime at
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC or .../GMT then 'date' gives the correct time,
> but marks it as GMT, not EDT. I suppose I could just leave
> /etc/localtime pointing at UTC, but that seems like a kludge solution.
> I have heard that there is a compile-time kernel variable related to
> all this, but I have also heard that this variable is obsolete. And
> in fact, it doesn't appear in the kernel configuration files.
If you can get the correct file symbolically linked to /etc/localtime/
so that EST (or whatever) show up correctly in the output of date, your
halfway there.
I then added the following command to root's crontab:
0 */2 * * * /usr/sbin/rdate <ts>
>/etc/date.corrected
Replace <ts> with the name of a machine on your net which accepts
daytime queries.
That'll keep the clock set correctly, and I think should take care of
any drift.
Hope this helps.
-c
_____________________________________________________________________
|Chris Mason - cmason@nyx.net cmason@cmu.edu http://ros.res.cmu.edu |
|"You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style."-Nabokov|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~