[afnog] Xntp on Solaris 9

[sematin@mtn.co.ug]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Candler [mailto:B.Candler at pobox.com] 
> > it up the output of the date command gives me time that is 
> 6 hours off my current time.
> 
> Which way? Would it be Eastern Standard Time (East coast US) 
> by any chance?

Possibly. The time I am seeing is 6 hours behind my time.
What puzzles me is that running date shows:
Fri Jan 27 13:28:20 GMT 2006

Which is 6 hours behind me.
> 
> > TZ=Africa/Kampala
> 
> That may not be right for Solaris. In any case, using the 
> environment to set the zone is risky, as environments can get 
> modified or flushed. I use /etc/localtime on BSD boxes, but I 
> don't know the Solaris equivalent off-hand.

I got this setting by looking through /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo and I also
tried setting it to GMT+3 but got the same problems.

Noah.