Re: rdate not setting the date

[Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.
>
>  
I do not use rdate.
However I do use ntp to sync with redhat and my time did not update 
until about 6pn local time.  Then it suddenly did the DST adjustment.

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