[plug] Setting the clock

[Oliver White]

Leon Brooks wrote:

> Oliver White wrote:
> >>> I'm trying to set the system clock using NTP. It's pointed at
> >>> time.iinet.net.au. However, my clock is exactly 8 hours fast. Can
> >>> someone  offer suggestions as to what might be wrong?
>
> >> You're getting UTC time and are in the zone 8 hours ahead of it? Write
> >> it into your RTC using /sbin/hwclock --utc --systohc and then get it
> >> back using /sbin/hwclock --hctosys (no --utc). You might have more joy
> >> running your system in RTC-in-UTC mode, depending on your distro and how
> >> it achieves this.
>
> > You mean run those two commands? With any other arguments?
>
> Suck it and see. (-:

Didn't do anything noticable. :/

Tried 'apt-get install ntpdate', and had to edit the configuration file, then
got:

narf:~# ntpdate
30 Jun 02:31:35 ntpdate[764]: no servers can be used, exiting

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Oliver White