[ale] rdate problem

Jim Philips jcphil at mindspring.com
Sat May 3 07:47:22 EDT 2003


On Saturday 03 May 2003 02:27 pm, Charles Shapiro wrote:
> D'oh!  Your rdate command is setting your clock to GMT, probly 'cause
> that's the local time of the server (.uk is Britain  IIRC). You could
> either find a server closer to home (I favor tick.gatech.edu), or if
> you're dead set on using that server you could  probably fiddle a script
> to apply your timezone to the date either with the TZ symbol or by
> wrangling it after it's set with date(1).
>
> -- CHS

But when I ran rdate manually, using the same server, it always set my clock 
to the right time. Only when I started running it by cron did I have this 
problem.
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