Freebsd how do you set the time?
 

Someone know how you adjust the date/time on your freebsd server?

the command is time

time help

Jon

/usr/sbin/ntpdate clock.isc.org

Timezone modification can be done with the following steps.
/stand/sysinstall
| -- [ Configure ]
|--[ Time Zone ]

oO..\/
peace

actually time is for command execution timing in freebsd.

eg...
$ time perl -e 'for(0..10000000){}'

real 0m1.425s
user 0m1.394s
sys 0m0.009s

ntpdate <ntp server>


cd /usr/share/zoneinfo
ls

pick your time zone

cp timezonefile /etc/localtime

or something like:

"date 0307080106"

Would set it to July 8th, 2003 1:06am

03 = 2003
07 = July
08 = Day
0106 = 24 hour time

hehe.. ok I GOTTA SAY IT. I LOVE Bsd, and I REALLY dont like windows servers... REALLY. But jesus folks, why does it take SO MUCH to set the time in bsd? really now! really, on that note, I am sysadmin for 9 linux / freebsd servers. I REALLY like BSD, but holy shit... hehe

Andrew

> date
Tue Jul 8 02:44:05 MDT 2003

Note the Timezone.

> ntpdate ntp.nasa.gov

If your timezone is not set properly, then

> /stand/sysinstall

Configure->Time zone ->

then
> ntpdate ntp.nasa.gov

Too easy.