David Douthitt wrote:
> 
> On 11/27/01 at 12:45 PM, Matt Schalit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Jeff Newmiller wrote:
> > [snip]
> >
> > > > xntpd steps the clock on my unix box every so often,
> > > > but it slews it every day.  Not sure what your seeing.
> > >
> > > David is referring to a startup phenomenon.  Read the
> > > manpage for ntpdate.
> >
> > I read that one, and it refers to how ntpdate steps or slews.
> > I don't see any mention that xntpd behaves like ntpdate.
> 
> It goes like this:
> 
> You boot your machine.  The startup script for xntpd runs ntpdate to
> set the system clock (and the kernel clock). 

 [snip]

If you say so :-)   I'll mess around with logging loopstats
and peerstats a bit more and try to see exactly what's
going on.



> > I'd like to be more help on the Linux side of things, but
> > the whole date/time subystem in Oxygen is broken w.r.t.
> > timezones, so it's a disaster for me to even try.
> 
> Oxygen date/time shouldn't be broken, especially with regards to
> Central Time (my local time zone).  

I've been posting about it for a while.  In case you 
didn't see the posts, the Oxygen-090601 date command 
is fuxored.  It is busybox-0.60.1.  It doesn't work.  
It shows ??? for the TZ.  If you don't believe me, 
extract 090601 and boot it yourself.  It does not work.  
It does not show CST.  It shows ??? no matter what I've 
done.  It is a bug.  It would be good if the time subsystem 
of Oxygen worked.  I run it as a firewall at several sites, 
and I would like to have the date command work.  I would 
like to see my log file have the correct dates and times.
I want my users to stop asking me when I'm going to fix
it because I have no idea.  I do not like bugs.  I do not 
like bugs.  I do not like bugs.


> I figure enough things come set to
> Mountain Time (California) or Eastern Time (Massachussetts, etc.).

California is PST, Pacific Standard Time.


> About time something came set to Central Time :)

Well that's fine.  I look forward to that.


> I'll probably look at replacing rdate with ntpdate - to get away from
> the time service.

It's date.  Not rdate.  The date command is broken.
Rdate can't work correctly if it can't get the
system date and time.  And xntpd ain't gonna help.

Matthew


> --
> David Douthitt

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