> (Greenwich Meantime or however you spell it) on your system clock. > Then you can set the timezone in software so that time shows up > properly. Yes, this is generally considered teh "right" way to run a *nix box.
> Secondly, I think there is some way of getting your machine to automatically > adjust for time drift, but I don't know what it is. xntpd (install the debian package). There's a list of time servers somewhere under http://www.cis.udel.edu/~ntp/ > netdate is the command I used to get the time on the net. Eg you could The equivalent xntp command is ntpdate. Will -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | | PGP Public Key: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/index.html#pgpkey | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | You think you're so smart, but I've seen you naked | | and I'll prob'ly see you naked again ... | | --The Barenaked Ladies, "Blame It On Me" | --------------------------------------------------------------------------