On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Dan Shimshoni <danshi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, > On my desktop at home, when I want to to update the local time (I > live in israel) I run: > ntpdate -s ntpserver.huji.ac.il > And it work OK. > However, there is a server at my work place which I am responsible > for. When I run: > ntpdate -s ntpserver.huji.ac.il > it sets the time to 7 hours earlier (I mean, instead 19:00, it is 12:00). > I assume this has something to do with Time zones, but this machine > has no X windows installed at all so I don't have a GUI for setting time > zones. > What causes this error ? > What should I do ? any advice ? > > 'date' will show you the time including the timezone. for example: $ date Thu May 27 21:47:50 IDT 2010 (IDT = Israel Daylight-savings Time) If your timezone is wrong, you can: cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Israel /etc/localtime And then try date again. the time will probably change, and you'll need to re-set it with 'date' to the correct time: date MonthDayHourMinute Of course you could simply sync your synchronization server with an accurate time which makes the most sense: an Internet NTP server, or in the lack of Internet access, something independent (i.e. a GPS receiver...) HTH, -- Shimi
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