Re: time sync? time servers give wrong time

John Hasler <john@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Bill Unruh writes:
ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2008a.tar.gz
mkdir /tmp/tz
cd /tmp/tz
tar -xzf /localation/of/tzdata2008a.tar.gz
As root
zic northamerica
cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Toronto /etc/localtime
chmod a+r /etc/localtime

and now your time will be fine.

His North American time will be fine.

Uh, yes. That was what he wanted. If you mean that this did not fix the
times if he happens to want Dubai time, you are correct. He would then have
to also compile the correct file which contained the Dubai time zone. But
he did say he lived in Toronto.

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John Hasler
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