Re: ntpdate issue ....

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <5520B1AE.70305%hiwaay.net@localhost>,
William A. Mahaffey III <wam%hiwaay.net@localhost> wrote:

>Yeah, that's wy I was soft-peddling it in previous posts. Someone else 
>suggested the custom timezone, I think I will look into that .... 
>*However*, ntpdate *IS* returning a bad offset from my ISP (I *think*), 
>someone might wanna look into that ....

I think it is telling you that your machine has a different time than
your isp. If you run it without -q and then again, it should have set
the time, and the offset would be small. 

So if you want your clock to appear 5 minutes fast and you are in EST5EDT
(AKA US/Eastern) you can "export TZ=EST4:55EDT" or something.

christos