On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 04:36:53PM +0100, Niki Kovacs enlightened us: > Matt Hyclak a écrit : > >On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 03:00:10PM +0100, Niki Kovacs enlightened us: > >>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? > >> > > > >chkconfig ntpd on > > > >will cause ntpd to sync and start the ntp daemon every boot. > > > >service ntpd start > > > >will start the daemon right now. > > > Hmmm. This is strange. When I use the method you described, the command > 'date' returns 17:34. But when I stop the ntpd service and run 'ntpdate' > manually as I described, it's 16:34 (which is right, and btw, I live in > South France). > > I'm confused. > Sounds like a daylight savings time issue, or you have the wrong timezone configured... Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263