cmos clock to utc time code?

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On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 20:56:44 -0800
jekillen <jekillen at prodigy.net> wrote:

> 
> On Nov 8, 2007, at 6:21 PM, Brent Jones wrote:
> 
> > There's no time zone setting in a cmos clock.  Just set the time to
> > whatever UTC is, and you should be good to go.  Ideally though, you
> > should have the system do an ntpdate command first, which will take 
> > care
> > of the clock issue for you.  Just put:
> >
> > ntpdate_enable="YES"
> >
> > in your rc.conf file, and it will run before ntpd starts.
> I have ntpd_enable="YES"
> in /etc/rc.conf already, would there be a conflict?

There's no conflict

> While this machine is being configured with all the
> functional software I want working, hub mail server with
> Cyrus, Apache/php/mysql. while I am getting everything
> set up and tested the machine will not be running 24/7
> so ntpdate would probably be a better choice,

Just run both.