[dundee] AHHHHHHHH

[Andrew Clayton]

On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 19:29, Keir Lawson wrote:
> CS Systems wrote:
> 
> >I think I'm just being silly here, but anyway.  I'm trying to get my 
> >linux (redhat 7.2) box to sycronize the time with time.nist.gov time 
> >server, and I've got the command
> >
> >hwclock -w | rdate -s time.nist.gov
> >
> >which sort of works... this sets both the system time and the 
> >hardware clock time to the value it recieves from time.nist.gov, but 
> >it is 1 hour slow. (Most likely due to the GMT daylight savings).  
> >Can anyone suggest how I can get the correct time from time.nist.gov 
> >so I can set the correct times for the system and hardware clocks.
> >
> >p.s.  I had it working about 2 hours ago, changed something and 
> >cannot get it back again :(   Suppose I was trying to be too smart.  
> >Any help greatly appreciated
> >
> >Yours sincerely 
> >
> >Christopher Shennan
> >CS Systems
> >
> >Web:  http://www.cs-systems.co.uk
> >Email:  cshennan@cs-systems.co.uk
> >
> >
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> >  
> >
> could somebody give me some step by step (or command by command) 
> instructions as i still consider myself a linux newbie.
> 

Err, for what exactly?, setting your time or for your partition problem?


> thanks
> 
> keir
> 


Andrew Clayton