On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 03:15, Brian Fahrlander wrote: > My local clock got moved, so I used redhat-config-time to establish > a new one. Then, just in case it'd take all day to adjust it via NTP, I > ran: > > [root@aquila root]# rdate -s time.nist.gov > Alarm clock > > ..."Alarm clock"? What the heck? I'd love to know as well. Been Googling like crazy for this, and no results yet! Of note that sometimes, when I go "rdate time.nist.gov" I get the actual time, then when I want to sync "rdate -s time.nist.gov" then it returns "Alarm clock". Same for time-a.nist.gov, time-b.nist.gov, as well as time.nrc.ca. Argh =) dex