Need Your Validation

scbops · 12-26-2006, 10:34 PM

my production system time is 1 hrs behind the actual local time. therefore I need to sync it with correct local time. I can't correct it at once because online business will get effected so I need to over run the clock, will following command take me there

watch -n 60 "date --set='+2 minute'"

archtoad6 · 12-27-2006, 05:09 AM

2 minute jumps are WAY too big -- they may do weird things to your file date consistency. I would work in tenths or 1/100's of a second & I would do some research on the 'Net before I decided what size each increment should be. "NTP" is a good Google starting point.

First, I would be sure that the problem is real. Not to be rude or insulting, but how do you know you have a problem? And how did it get so big? What are the symptoms? Could they be masking a different problem?

Consider the following:

Exactly 1 hour?
Do you know how this happened?
Is this in any way related to daylight time?
Is this in any way related to a time zone error?
Is your hardware (BIOS) clock set to UTC or local?
How do you normally keep this server synced?
What do you sync to?
Do you serve time to your LAN?
Is there no automatic & more gradual method provided?