[CentOS] System on time
Ross S. W. Walker
rwalker at medallion.com
Fri Nov 9 15:11:40 UTC 2007
Niki Kovacs wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> To get my system on time, I usually issue these two commands:
>
> # ntpdate de.pool.ntp.org
> # hwclock -w
>
> And when I want this to be done on startup, I put the two lines in
> rc.local.
>
> I wonder if this is an orthodox way to do things. Or is there
> something
> more appropriate?
Choose a couple publically available time servers, I believe a link
was posted on this thread, and set them in /etc/ntp.conf.
I suppose with 'hwclock -w' that your bios clock is set to localtime
and your system dual boots? If that is the case then set UTC=false
in /etc/sysconfig/clock.
-Ross
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