Syncing system time

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If you have your /usr on a different partition, it can cause all kinds 
of headaches with your clock. Something about when the kernel sets the 
system time and your /usr partition isn't mounted yet to be consulted 
on what your timezone is. I had this issue...ended up re-installing and 
using one partition for the whole kit-n-kaboodle :\

I may be wrong though...so don't take my work for it.

r.

On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at 11:54 PM, Romain Kang wrote:

> If you look at the date(1) man page, the two most likely sources
> of time zone info are /etc/localtime and the TZ environmental
> variable.  However, programs like system daemons disregard the TZ
> environment and rely on /etc/localtime.
>
> If /etc/localtime was set up correctly, you should be able to
> remove TZ from your environment and still get the correct time
> when you run date.  If this doesn't work, then the solution should
> be simple:
> 	# cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/PST8PDT /etc/localtime
>
> If that doesn't work, please show us the output of "date"
> and "date -u" taken at the same time.  This may provide some
> helpful clues.
>
> Romain Kang                             Disclaimer: I speak for myself 
> alone,
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