rdate not setting the date

[Mary Ellen Foster]

On Monday 05 Apr 2004 11:58, 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?

Check the list archives for a message I wrote a week ago (when Europe 
switched to summer time) entitled "FYI: /etc/localtime and changing to 
summer time". It might be that the same issue caused your clock not to 
update automatically as well.

(Summary: check permission on /etc/localtime and make sure it's 
world-readable.)

MEF

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