[PLUG] Future Time Stamp: Clocks FUBAR

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2015, Rich Shepard wrote:

>   Not understanding how to get the hardware and system clocks correctly
> set on this Slackware system, I need a clue stick from you SysAdmin gurus.

   More information.

   ntpd was upgraded last month, and the new ntp.conf file replaced the old
one. No pools were specified in the new ntp.conf by uncommenting them. I
just did so; now ntp.conf has:

# NTP server (list one or more) to synchronize with:
server 0.pool.ntp.org iburst
server 1.pool.ntp.org iburst
server 2.pool.ntp.org iburst
server 3.pool.ntp.org iburst

   Restarted ntpd.

   Ran 'hwclock -w' and now the hwclock and date commands show the same time.
But, 'ntpdate' reports:

16 Jan 11:39:36 ntpdate[5364]: no servers can be used, exiting

I find no man page for ntpdate.

   And the timestamp in the tar'd directory is still at 2015-01-16 20:47; in
other words, that time has not changed for more than an hour.

   My confusion remains. What have I missed?

Rich