Tom N. wrote :

> Will someone tell me, please, how to get
> my time here switched from PST to PDT?
>
Run 'timeconfig' as root.

> Being a single user, I don't want to install
> ntpd.

Check out rdate-1.5:

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On 2007-11-13, Thomas Overgaard wrote:
>
> Tom N. wrote :
>
>> Will someone tell me, please, how to get
>> my time here switched from PST to PDT?
>>
> Run 'timeconfig' as root.

I've got that application, but no man page. Tried
timeconfig --help and it started the program,
which I cancelled for now.

>> Being a single user, I don't want to install
>> ntpd.
>
> Check out rdate-1.5:
>

Got it and it compiled just fine and once I found
a timeserver with google it worked just fine, too.

Did rdate -s 128.118.25.3 and it blanked my
screen, which was corrected with a keystroke.

No indication of a problem in /var/log/syslog or /var/log/messages
and my time is now correct.

Thanks again, Thomas.

Tom

Tom N. wrote :

> I've got that application, but no man page.

Its a ncurses program made for Slackware only, but in short:

The first screen let you choose whether your harwareclock should run UTC
or local time, if you are duel booting with M$Windows choose local time
else UTC.

Next screen let you set your local time zone. You must have seen this
when you installed Slackware.
>
> Did rdate -s 128.118.25.3 and it blanked my
> screen, which was corrected with a keystroke.
>
This happens when the difference in time is big, if its only a few
seconds you wont see this.
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On 2007-11-14, Thomas Overgaard wrote:
>
> Tom N. wrote :
>
>> I've got that application, but no man page.
>
> Its a ncurses program made for Slackware only, but in short:
>
> The first screen let you choose whether your harwareclock should run UTC
> or local time, if you are duel booting with M$Windows choose local time
> else UTC.
>
> Next screen let you set your local time zone. You must have seen this
> when you installed Slackware.
>>
>> Did rdate -s 128.118.25.3 and it blanked my
>> screen, which was corrected with a keystroke.
>>
> This happens when the difference in time is big, if its only a few
> seconds you wont see this.

Thomas,

I reread the manpage. Should have used this option:
-a Adjust time gradually, rather than in a big jump.

Should have carefully read the manpage in the first place, actually.

This sure was a good solution to the clocksetting problem. Thanks
again.

Tom