That's weird -- I've never encountered that. I merely do:

[myotis:~]$ sudo ntpdate time.nist.gov
10 Nov 12:14:53 ntpdate[3684]: adjust time server 192.43.244.18 offset 0.000864 sec

That sets your system clock. You'll then want to write that to the
hardware clock, so you don't end up way off in the event of a reboot. 

[myotis:~]$ sudo hwclock --systohc

Andy

> Never mind - I need to use the -s argument apparently [to ntpdate].
> 
> ntpdate -s time.nist.gov
> 
> Tom Veldhouse
> veldy at veldy.net
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy at veldy.net>
> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 10:12 AM
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG:23670] keeping time correct
> 
> 
> > I have yet to find a nice piece of documentation to get these to work.
> > Everytime I try I get information from a server, I get some sort of
> error -
> > usually telling me that the server does not support NTP.

[. . .]

> > Tom Veldhouse
> > veldy at veldy.net