User Feedback :: time synchronisation

I agree that this information would be helpful at the top of the search page.

Since this forum is based on php+html, it should be pretty easy to do.

If not, this information should be added to the DSL documentation site.

What I've done to get time synchonisation is download ntpdate and ntpd from a debian site.
Then I used 7-zip on windows to unpack the files you need and move them to dsl.
Before I start ntpd I run ntpdate (ntpd will sometimes complain about too large difference, ntpdate not).
Edit the right conf files and you're done.
I didn't want to apt-get.
etc/ntp.conf
etc/default/ntpdate
etc/init.d/ntpdate
usr/sbin/ntpd
usr/sbin/ntpdate
usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Amsterdam
The timezone I got from another deb file.

I've got ntpdate installed (using the info here - thanks) and backed it up so it's there when I reboot !

However, My clock is 5 hours out so the timezone isn't working, I deleted the localtime symbolic link and made a new one to the Europe/London Timezone File (Which I took off Redhat 7.1 - it's all I had)

but it still seems to be working to the default timezone, the minutes and date are OK but not the hours - - - Can anyone help ?

Hi,

When I was trying to get the right time, I was using the hwclock command.
One of the options (-s or -w) gave me the right time.

On my machines (not the latest) the script /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig will recreate /etc/localtime on every boot using the LANGUAGE option in bootparams.

Using "date" can you verify the TIMEZONE is correct?
Here is says CEST using TIMEZONE=Europe/Amsterdam.

Quote (NotTheMama @ Aug. 09 2005,03:44)

Hmm,,

my timezone is wrong, set as EDT

hwclock -s or -w made no difference,

what should I set for LANGUAGE ?

Thanks

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