Setting time on PogoPlug Mobile

[christianwaite]

Ok thanks for al the help guys/gals, I had read somewhere I should set my TIMEZONE to "London", but yeah I had to set it to GMT. It's working now apart from I'm GMT-1 because of daylight savings...

Looking up now how to automate DST.
Cheers
C

[moonman]

It's in the profile that you choose and is automatic. Set it to GB?

[christianwaite]

Ahh, I read that it didn't do and you had to set up scripts to do it, thank god I dont.
Right, it's all working, sorry for the totally amateur questions.
Thank you
Christian

[bodhi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('moonman', 'J')ust a little suggestion/modification to bodhi's post. Put ntpd first on the list of daemons so that it gets loaded first oterwise your timestamps in logs will be messed up at the beginning. $this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'DAEMONS=(!hwclock ntpd syslog-ng network netfs crond sshd)')

[sambul13]

Will ntpd provide correct time before network service is up?

[moonman]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('sambul13', 'W')ill ntpd provide correct time before network service is up?

[tedm]

I have ntp working fine, but have had trouble with the latest arch linux on pogoplug reading my timezone (PST -8), so while I backdated with "date", I'm getting regular adjustments of 8 hours.

Somewhere else here I've read that rc.conf is not used anymore, so is there a better way to set my time?

e.g. date provides the correct time, but says UTC even though it's correct for PST, due to setting it back 8 hours, while ntp pool updates continually adjust it 8 hours up to match PST. I'm sure there's a better way, I just need to have my timezone which I linked form /usr/share/zoneinfo to /etc/localtime

e.g. /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/PSST8PDT