[Lvlug] What happened?

[Mark]

On Sunday 16 April 2006 06:18 am, jab at fast.net wrote:
> Quoting Mark <mstanley at technologist.com>:
> > helping my father-in-law with a truck load of mulch.  Now it's inside
> > time...
> >
> > -Mark
>
> Uncle!

NOT!  Computer geeks should not have to shovel mulch.  It's a killer.

> Just gave /usr/sbin/timeconfig and /usr/sbin/timeconfig a bit of a
> perusal ... and I give up. My 'date' is ok, at least till some future
> reboot (and I think that may be ok too, I don't recall TZ problems arising
> on last reboot, Feb 22).

Even though I looked at and I can see TZ used in timeconfig when I do a 
'printenv TZ' I get nothing.  So I was guessing that after your system 
rebooted with TZ defined it set everything properly and permanently.

> And since noone has mentioned my posts being off ...
>
> "ntpdate pool.ntp.org" once a month or so keeps date close enough.

Maybe it's time I did that too.  <- See the 'time' pun. lol >

-Mark