Thank you both for the quick replies. The answer to my problem is htpdate. I was searching for such an utility for quite some time. I still have one problem, though. When installing Gentoo, I probably chose the USA as my location. However, I'm located in CET (that is, GMT+1). From htpdate, I receive the following output:
localhost liviu # /usr/sbin/htpdate -dq -P PROXY_ADDRESS:PROXY_PORT www.linux.org www.opera.com pool.ntp.org www.linux.org 03 Sep 2007 07:32:19 GMT (0.477) => -24738 www.linux.org 03 Sep 2007 07:32:20 GMT (0.325) => -24738 www.opera.com 03 Sep 2007 07:32:21 GMT (0.119) => -24738 www.opera.com 03 Sep 2007 07:32:22 GMT (0.117) => -24738 pool.ntp.org 03 Sep 2007 07:32:22 GMT (0.134) => -24738 pool.ntp.org 03 Sep 2007 07:32:23 GMT (0.072) => -24738 #: 3, mean: -24738, average: -24738.000 Timezone: GMT-5 (EST,EST) Offset -24738.000 seconds For some reason, it persistently considers my timezone EST (Eastern Standard Time, GMT-5). I reconsidered Gentoo's localization guide and now /etc/cond.d/clock contains these two options: localhost liviu # nano /etc/conf.d/clock [..] CLOCK="local" TIMEZONE="Europe/Berlin" [..] I also added TZ="Europe/Berlin" to both user and root ~/.bash_profile. And still, htpdate wants to synchronize my clock to EST. Any ideas on how to make htpdate think that I'm actually in the EU instead of the US? There was no info on the way it treats timezones, neither in the man page, nor on their site. I did find in their changelog: 0.6.1 ----- - Code clean up, use global variable 'timezone'. However, running it under new env gives me yet again the time synced to EST: localhost liviu # timezone="GMT+1" OR TIMEZONE="CET" htpdate -dq -P PROXY_ADDRESS:PROXY_PORT www.linux.org www.opera.com pool.ntp.org [..] Timezone: GMT-5 (EST,EST) Offset -24738.000 seconds Regards, Liviu On 9/2/07, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > * net-misc/htpdate > Available versions: ~0.9.2 0.9.3 1.0.0 > Homepage: http://www.clevervest.com/htp/ > Description: Synchronize local workstation with time offered > by remote webservers > > > -- Liviu
