[plug] Setting the clock

[Leon Brooks]

Oliver White wrote:
> 
> 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

Sorry, perhaps I should have been more explicit.

If you read the docs, they would have advised giving it a few servers to
suck time from. tictoc.tip.csiro.au works, even though marked obsolete,
and there's one in UWA somewhere, but you may be logistically closer to
Melb or Syd depending on who you connect through. The Adelaide Uni ones
move occasionally, so I don't rely solely on them.

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