[afnog] Xntp on Solaris 9

[Kenneth Kabagambe]

For Solaris,you specify GMT-3 when you mean GMT+3(your timezone is 3 
hours ahead), Works for me here..

sematin at mtn.co.ug wrote:

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