Re: [cobalt-users] Setting times...

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 23 May 2002 03:54 am, Render-Vue wrote:
> Hi Yah,
>
> General question regarding on off our collocated RAQ3's
>
> In the GUI it shows the server time (system time) as being:-
>
> Region - North America
> Country - Canada
> Locale/Zone - Mountain Standard
> NPT Server - clock.isc.org

Is the above the correct time zone for New Zeland?

I can't get clock.isc.org to respond, are you sure it is working?
I may not have permission to use it.

> Now since we last rebooted (one of the Cobalt updates)  I've noticed that
> the "hardware" time is 6 hours in front of the system time. In Webmin it
> shows two times hardware and system.

Clock is running GMT

> Questions are...
>
> 1. What should take precedence system time or hardware time it's just so I
> can sync both of them together. Sever is collocated in the States

I don't think it makes any difference, although it is the system time that 
you don't want to jerk around any more than necessary

> 2. In the GUI if I wanted to can I set the GUI time to our local New
> Zealand time then sync the hardware time to that.

This should  all work automatically.
I just found out that if I change the ntp server in the GUI and save, I 
always get an error  Could not refresh time from ntp0.cornell.edu

Yet, I can use the CL and rdate -p ntp0.cornell.edu and it works, i wonder if 
one of the updates didn't screw this up. I will look into this and report my 
findings.

> Reason for no.2 is that when logfiles come through it shows the email as
> system time but cron.daily etc work off "hardware time" and converting
> logfile times etctera back to NZ time is getting to be a pain in the butt.
>

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