rdate not setting the date
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Mon Apr 5 16:30:28 UTC 2004
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.
>
>
>
I do not use rdate.
However I do use ntp to sync with redhat and my time did not update
until about 6pn local time. Then it suddenly did the DST adjustment.
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