So I ent to /etc ,and looked. localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC
That was set by system on Mar 28 -- I upgraded the system. The current mess happened when I was playing with ntpdate / ntpd . So how do I fix it?? On Mon, Sep 2, 2024 at 4:08 PM Steve Rikli <s...@genyosha.net> wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 02, 2024 at 03:13:30PM +0000, Todd Gruhn wrote: > > I reset time to 13:10 -- my current time for EST is about > > 11:10 . > > > > How do I reset this back to this time, and at in EST > > Timezone is set by the /etc/localtime file, which is typically a symlink > pointing to a time zone definition file in /usr/share/zoneinfo/. > > E.g. for a system in the US on the west coast, you might have: > > $ ls -la /etc/localtime > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 39 Aug 31 21:39 /etc/localtime -> > /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles > > If you don't set the timezone during installation or with 'sysinst' at > some point, NetBSD defaults to UTC. > > sysinst Utility menu has a selection for setting timezone, you can also > adjust the /etc/localtime symlink to your preference. > > Note that changing the timezone doesn't actually change the clock itself, > merely the system's display of the time. If you want to change the clock > you could use the date(1) command to do it manually, run ntpdate / ntpd(8) > if you want the system to regularly sync with other time servers, etc. > > cheers, > sr.
