Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Yu-Hui Liu wrote: >> Another problem is that seems there's no GUI to change date/time. I >> seldom change the time so can't remember the format and every time I >> have to run "man date" at first. It's not necessary to be in the >> desktop context menu but should be somewhere else that is easy to be >> found. > > I find "ntpdate <servername>" to be very simple syntax to remember and > get right when I have to set the time on my laptop. When inside the > Sun firewall I use our group's fileserver since it provides NTP service. > On the open net, I believe pool.ntp.org should work pretty well. >
Alan's right; the system clock should be maintained w/ ntp. For use in varying timezones (the proverbial road warrior developer laptop) it would seem useful to allow the user to set his idea of local time on login. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts
