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From: Drew Tomlinson <drew@××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o, laebshade@×××××.com
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd & timezone
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 06:41:04
Message-Id: 432521EF.8060505@mykitchentable.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd & timezone by Mark Shields
1 On 9/11/2005 9:34 PM Mark Shields wrote:
2
3 > What does
4 >
5 > ls -ln /etc/localtime
6 >
7 > return?
8
9 mythtv@tv ~ $ ls -ln /etc/localtime
10 lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 27 May 8 11:07 /etc/localtime ->
11 /usr/share/zoneinfo/PST8PDT
12
13 Thanks for your reply!
14
15 Drew
16
17 >
18 > On 9/12/05, *Drew Tomlinson* <drew@××××××××××××××.net
19 > <mailto:drew@××××××××××××××.net>> wrote:
20 >
21 > I'm new to Gentoo. I've built a system based on the 2.6-11 kernel and
22 > everything has been working fine. Some time passed and I thought it a
23 > good idea to update. Thus I ran emerge -uvD world to update. Then I
24 > ran etc-update to merge the conf files. I basically accepted
25 > replacement of conf files I didn't think I'd changed and merged
26 > the ones
27 > I did change. However, now ntpd seems to make my time about 8 hours
28 > behind my local time. I am on PDT. I suspect ntpd is seeing PDT
29 > as GMT
30 > and then the system is subtracting the 8 hours. What file(s) should I
31 > look at to get things back to normal?
32 >
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Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd & timezone Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz>