FreeBSD date drifts significantly

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Tue Nov 21 11:08:48 PST 2006


Neil Short wrote:
> I suspect this has something to do with maybe the
> server that is synchronizing my time; but I don't
> recall how to synchronize my time with an up-stream
> server. Can't find documentation on it either.
> 
> Any pointers?

Given the choice, it's better to run the BIOS clock in UTC, and have FreeBSD 
configured to do the same.  But you can re-run sysinstall and change it via 
the menus, if you prefer.  See the fine Handbook:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-post.html#SET-TIMEZONE-LOCALITY

-- 
-Chuck


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