Time on FreeBSD Server off

[ppvora]

Hello all,

I hate to bring this up again (there are threads on this, but they don't solve my problem) but here's my problem: I have a FreeBSD VPS that just won't have the right time. When I run the date command it displays:

Fri Sep 27 17:12:11 EDT 2013

The date is correct, the time zone (EDT) is correct, but the time is way off. As the time the date command was run, the EDT time was 13:21:xx --- I ran the tzsetup utility and made all the right selections (as confirmed by the EDT output from date). I rebooted the server. I also ran ntpd -q.

No luck. Help.
-Premal

 

[wblock@]

Is ntpd(8) enabled? If not, does it set the time correctly if you run ntpd -x -q? Virtual machines often have trouble keeping time, usually helped by adding

kern.hz="100"

to /boot/loader.conf and corrected by running ntpd(8) as a daemon.

 

[ppvora]

@wblock@,

Thanks.

1. When ntpd -x -q is run, the time is not corrected.
2. Once I added

   kern.hz="100"

   to the loader.conf file and then I run ntpd as a daemon, the time was corrected! Hooray!

-Premal

 

[jalla]

See ntpd(8)(). If time is more than 1000s off you need -g as well
ntpd -x -q -g

 

[wblock@]

The /etc/rc.conf version is:

ntpd_enable="YES"
ntpd_sync_on_start="YES"