[CentOS] System on time

Fri Nov 9 15:11:40 UTC 2007
Ross S. W. Walker <rwalker at medallion.com>

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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