[SOLVED] Clock is slow

guriinii · 2010-11-12 20:16:49

Hi,

How do I change the system clock? The clock on my tint2 is fast by 8 minutes or so.

Last edited by guriinii (2010-11-19 19:00:30)

cirkit · 2010-11-12 20:25:15

Synchronize your system with an NTP time server using ntpdate. Find the closest time server here: http://www.pool.ntp.org/en/

bernarcher · 2010-11-12 21:16:53

Try this first: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Time#Time_Skew

guriinii · 2010-11-18 22:23:53

I've tried both methods neither have worked. Do I need to change anything in /etc/rc.conf?

karol · 2010-11-18 22:33:04

guriinii wrote:

I've tried both methods neither have worked. Do I need to change anything in /etc/rc.conf?

What do you benchmark your clock against, how do you know it's slow? Is your hardware clock OK? How do you set it and how do you set your system clock? Do you have to use localtime or are you using UTC in /etc/rc.conf?

cirkit · 2010-11-18 22:42:54

guriinii wrote:

I've tried both methods neither have worked. Do I need to change anything in /etc/rc.conf?

You shouldn't need to. But make sure you do have the right timezone defined in rc.conf. If it is not, use tzselect to set your timezone. What are you basing your clock's 8 minute difference to? What exactly have you tried that didn't work? Synchronizing your system's clock to a close-by NTP server should have corrected that 8 minute difference.

guriinii · 2010-11-18 22:57:49

I changed the ntpd in the /etc/rc.conf daemons array from:

@ntpd

to:

ntpd

which has resolved the problem.

Thanks for the advice.

Nichollan · 2010-11-18 23:29:03

Although that doesn't explain much by itself, you can mark the topic as [SOLVED] by editing the first post in this thread.

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