Marvin, Marvin Garcia wrote: > This is what i have en the ntp.conf file. [...] Looks OK.
> Look this again > [EMAIL PROTECTED] # date > Wed May 10 21:41:57 GMT 2006 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] # date -u > Wed May 10 17:42:00 GMT 2006 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] # echo $TZ > GMT-4 > > if you see my timezone var is set to GMT-4 (this is the one that > belongs to me location). the system date (Wed May 10 21:41:57 GMT > 2006) should be (Wed May 10 17:42:00 GMT 2006) - 4 = Wed May 10 > 13:42:00 GMT 2006 not (Wed May 10 17:42:00 GMT 2006 )+ 4 = Wed May 10 > 21:41:57 GMT 2006, because my GMT is set to GMT-4. As already mentioned in my other post, the old TZ thing works exactly the other way round. If your local time is GMT - 4 hours (or let's better call it UTC - 4 hours) then you must set the TZ environment variable to GMT4 because the definition is UTC = local time + TZ value. Just try: date -u # returns UTC time TZ=GMT4 date # displays UTC time - 4 hours On my system is looks like this: # date -u Wed May 10 19:57:38 UTC 2006 # TZ=GMT4 date Wed May 10 15:57:40 GMT 2006 I think the result is what you expect. However, "GMT" is a poor choice for the abbreviation of the time zone name since it implies that the displayed time is GMT, which in fact it isn't. Better use a abbreviation which is associated to what you call your local time zone. Anyway, using TZ this way is outdated and you should preferably configure your time zone maybe as "America/Santo_Domingo", as Richard B. Gilbert proposed in one of his posts. Martin -- Martin Burnicki Meinberg Funkuhren Bad Pyrmont Germany _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
