Another good utility for this is rdate (found in most popular distributions):

    emerge rdate

    rdate -s time.nist.gov

    (Simply accomplishes the same thing... but is also available)...

    One thing I also find useful (being that my primary linux machine is a laptop) is to have an init script do the same thing upon bootup...



[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don't know about OO, but here's how I manage my clock...

emerge net-misc/ntp to get the ntp programs.  Then, run a cron job to sync your clock.  I use the command:

ntpdate -b time.nrc.ca

to sync my clock to the National Research Council's atomic(?) clock.  I do this once or twice a day (probably overkill), and my system clock never gets more than a second off.

Doug Gorley | [EMAIL PROTECTED]


----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Bellemare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, January 30, 2003 9:10 am
Subject: [gentoo-user] time and office problems

  
Hi there!

first of all, i've got a problem with my time clock.
while i've put the right time zone in /etc/localtimezone it keeps 
giving the wrong time (about 4 hours of difference).
I think it's taking the time from the hardware clock (or not, i 
can't remember which one it should use) or UTC (correct me if im 
mistaken)How do i solve this?

second i've downloaded and installed OpenOffice without problems 
using emerge but i cant find the way to start de program. While I 
was on Debian i habitually installed it from source code or GUI 
isntaller telling me where the binaries were...now cant find them

thank you all for your time

M.B

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