System clock off by 7 hrs

[mharvey87]

I is 11:10 PM March 11 right now, when I use the date command it
returns 6:10 March 12.
I have set it up for Pacific time but I think it's confused. What can I do to fix this?

[osx-addict]

Do you have something like the following in your /etc/rc.conf :


ntpdate_flags="north-america.pool.ntp.org"
ntpdate_enable="YES"

[mharvey87]

no, tried adding it, still nothing

[Mel_Flynn]

I have set it up for Pacific time but I think it's confused.
Or perhaps you are. What is the full output of the date command (including the timezone bit).

[mharvey87]

Thu Mar 12 06:44:54 PDT 2009

[Mel_Flynn]

Execute as root:
date 200903112356.00

Your clock was off when you changed timezone, so it's still off.

[mharvey87]

That's weird, whatever number I use for the year with that command it sets the year to 2020.

[Mel_Flynn]

Sure you typed the dot ('.') to indicate the seconds? And 03 not 3? Works like a charm here:

% sudo date 200903112309.20
Wed Mar 11 23:09:20 AKDT 2009
% tail -1 /var/log/messages
Mar 11 23:09:20 laptop date: date set by mel

[mharvey87]

It worked that time, thanks. I still can't help wondering why it would be wrong in the first place though, I set it up for PDT during the installation.