silly question - what is the rawhide/9beta+ way to set my timezone

John Poelstra poelstra at redhat.com
Tue Apr 8 22:13:31 UTC 2008


Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:30:16PM +1000, David Timms wrote:
>> OK, got that in the menu {Date & Time}. timezone is set correctly, and 
>> UTC is not checked. adding a ntp server {that works from ntpdate 
>> au.pool.ntp.org}, doesn't get the clock set.
> 
> In rawhide this is split now in two services - ntp and ntpdate.
> What 'chkconfig ntpdate --list' says?  How about
> 'chkconfig ntpd --list'?
> 
> 'hwclock' which reads and writes your hardware clock in rawhide
> scripts is used in /etc/init.d/ntpdate and /etc/init.d/halt.
> 
> Hmm...,  I do not see in the current startup anything which would
> set an initial system clock - save ntpdate which may not run or
> may be unable to do the job.  That used to be done in
> /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit but not anymore.  Is this intentional?
>

Exactly my question too!

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=441504




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