Syncing system time

Rob Brandt yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Thu Mar 27 12:53:00 2003


Thanks for the idea, but no, I have /home and /var on seperate partitions but
/usr is on the same as the remainder.

Rob


Quoting "r.sesser" <rjs@randys.org>:

> 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.
> >
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