[olpc-help] Setting the time

[Laurie DeMott]

Thanks, Rick.  I, in fact, finally came to that solution yesterday 
after extensive googling and it did work.  It would be helpful to put 
this on the wiki somewhere for the Linux-challenged among us, because 
it was certainly easier than trying to contact servers for the time, 
which is what is on the wiki now.

Laurie


At 08:44 AM 2/22/2008, you wrote:

>Quoting Laurie DeMott <demotlj at unionuniversitychurch.org>:
>
> > My XO clock reads thirteen hours fast and I have tried following the wiki
> > to reset it but have been unsuccessful. The timezone is correct but when I
> > enter /usr/sbin/ntpdate time.nist.gov, Terminal tells me "no server
> > suitable for synchronization found".  I also tried ntpdate pool.ntp.org
> > (as described in another wiki) but was told "command not found".   I did
> > use the su command to get super user priviledges so that's not the
> > problem. My Linux abilities are limited to what I can copy from a wiki.
> > Any suggestions?
>
>I haven't messed with ntpdate yet, but as a quick fix you can use the
>"date" command (doesn't require a network connection). You can get the
>format by typing "date --help", but I believe it is:
>
>date MMDDhhmmCCYY
>
>so "date 022208422008" should do it (replacing the date and time with
>yours, of course).
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Rick
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