[Sheflug] Re: Daylight saving time & rdate

[Richard <nospam [at] sheflug.co.uk>]

Dear All


> > Hmmm... been having some problems with time this week.
> >
> > All my linux boxes keep GMT in the CMOS clocks and do a "clock -su" on
> > boot - this sets the unix time 1 hour infront of the CMOS time in the
> > summer. Problem being the gateway syncs it's time with a UK timeserver
> > every time it connects to the net with rdate - the timeserver returns
> > GMT not BST so I loose an hour on the unix clock, and then it sets the
> > CMOS clock another hour behind so my CMOS clock keeps GMT -1 hour. As
> > all the other machines on the LAN sync off the gateway then chaos
> > ensues. Apart from changing to a French timeserver in the summer how do
> > I get the timezones sorted (short of rewriting rdate with an option to
> > ignore the hour part of the returned time)? Been looking through xntp
> > documentation but it all seems soooo much more complicated than what I need.
> Hrm.
> I do ntpdate -us time.nist.gov 2 or 3 times a day.
> and it coped fine with BST.
> not sure what to suggest. unless rdate is different, or your timezone is
> set funny.


Yeh, I've got the same problem with my domestic workstation.  Started
after I installed SuSE 7.1.  I thought it was something to do with
KDE.  I've had that problem several times with new releases of KDE.

So, what do I ?

Anyone know what line to put into /etc/ppp/ip-up to sort things out ?
Chris came up with one some time ago that works fine with Red Hat but
won't work with my system.

Other thing is.  Once my net facing box has updated itself I then need
to get my workstation to check in on that box so that it will correct
itself.  Perhaps crontab could be used ?

*/30  * * *  /check/time/every/30/mins

although wot the crontab might look like I've no idea ?

Thanks


Richard

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