On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 18:58, Bill Johnson wrote: > I searched, but didn't see an answer to this. I have always used rdate to > keep my system clock in sync with time.nist.gov NTP time server. When > daylight savings time hit this past weekend, I noticed that the time on my > laptop did not change. I tried to do it manually, with no affect. Is > there a problem with rdate under fedora? > > If I run rdate -s time.nist.gov, I get a message displayed: > > Alarm clock > > but no change to the system time. I have also tried other NTP servers > with the exact same result. I get the same result if I try rdate -p > time.nist.gov (or any other NTP server). > > Any suggestions? I miss the assurance of my laptop time being accurate. There was already a thread asking about the "Alarm clock" return value. Unfortunately, no one seems to know since no one's answering. All I can recommend to you is to do what I do... try other NTP servers. I usually use time.nrc.ca and results are normally good. You might want to try that server. Good luck! dex
