Very noobish question but how do I adjust my clock? I searched these forums and found a post that pointed someone to use ntp, I then downloaded ntp but I don't have any time servers to synchronize with. Isn't there a way for me to manually edit the time? Like when you double click the clock in Windows you can adjust it.
Thanks.

Edit: By the way, (I don't know if this matters or not but...) I'm using Fluxbox on Debian.

I don't know if it's relevant, since you don't use mandrake... but I was having the smae problem with Gnome. it turns out on the desktop there was a control center sort of thing where I had to go, and it lets you change settings on your hardware and such.

Well, Flux doesn't have a pointy-clicky thing
to achieve this ... but have a look at
man date
;)


Cheers,
Tink

P.S.: You can always point ntp at an open
server on the internet close to you...

I wrote a cool little perl script that gets executed every 2 weeks and adjustes the linux and motherboard bios time to the Naval observatory:


[root@bruce ~]ssh:# more /etc/syncro_time.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl -w


##This program fetches the time from the USNO and sets my linux machine to it.
##################################################################
@q = `lynx "http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl" -dump `;

$time = $q[4];

$time =~ s/\,//g;
$time =~ s/\.//g;
$time =~ s/Eastern daylight time//i;
$time =~ s/Eastern standard time//i;
$time =~ s/ A//i;
print $time;

#Set the time in Linux
`date -s \"$time\"`;
#Set the time in MB BIOS
`hwclock --systohc`;


Bruce

At the console, enter

hwclock --set --date 'dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm:ss'
hwclock --hctosys


HTH

Use ntp, as suggested. It works well. There are many public timeservers you can use. You don't need level 1 servers (and should not use them unless you yourself are serving time to a large group of workstattions, but many level 2 servers are meant to be used by the public in general (ah, the old spirit of the internet). See http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.html for the "Rules of Engagement" with the links to currently available (public) servers at the bottom of the page.

This is what I use:

netdate time.nist.gov

I have it set to run every hour so my clock is always on time.

This is a little unrealted but in RedHat 9 doesen't the boot up sync the clock with the redhat time server? I think I have seen this go by during boot up but I never really pay attention unless I see a fail.

And besides I am not really concerned if my time is a little bit of, as long as it is consistantly off so it does not mess up my logs

Thanks for the quick replies all. Once again my clock is on time. Whee.