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Topic: time synchronisation, I'm a linux newb, so this will be easy

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cbagger01

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Posted: July 22 2005,02:54

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.

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Posted: July 22 2005,11:26

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.

damianiw

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Posted: Aug. 08 2005,14:06

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 ?

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Posted: Aug. 09 2005,07:44

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.