rdate not setting the date
Dexter Ang
thepoch at mydestiny.net
Mon Apr 5 12:22:47 UTC 2004
On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 18:58, Bill Johnson wrote:
> I searched, but didn't see an answer to this. I have always used rdate to
> keep my system clock in sync with time.nist.gov NTP time server. When
> daylight savings time hit this past weekend, I noticed that the time on my
> laptop did not change. I tried to do it manually, with no affect. Is
> there a problem with rdate under fedora?
>
> If I run rdate -s time.nist.gov, I get a message displayed:
>
> Alarm clock
>
> but no change to the system time. I have also tried other NTP servers
> with the exact same result. I get the same result if I try rdate -p
> time.nist.gov (or any other NTP server).
>
> Any suggestions? I miss the assurance of my laptop time being accurate.
There was already a thread asking about the "Alarm clock" return value.
Unfortunately, no one seems to know since no one's answering. All I can
recommend to you is to do what I do... try other NTP servers. I usually
use time.nrc.ca and results are normally good. You might want to try
that server. Good luck!
dex
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