For 3.10 tzdata-america changed to tzdata-americas

1. ipkg install tzdata-<your-continent>

1. ipkg install tzdata-<your continent>

1. ipkg install tzdata-<your-continent> * Replaced timezone with tzdata - Caysho 04 April 2007

1. ipkg install timezones-<your-continent> * If possible use tzdata-<your continent>

tzdata-africa
tzdata-america
tzdata-antarctica
tzdata-arctic
tzdata-asia
tzdata-atlantic
tzdata-australia
tzdata-europe
tzdata-indian
tzdata-pacific

1. ipkg install tzdata-<your-continent> <== For 3.10 * Replaced timezone with tzdata for 3.10 - Caysho 04 April 2007

NOTE: This page is very out-of-date, and needs a thorough overhaul before it should be considered usable again. ~mwester 16 March 2007

1. ipkg install timezone-<your-continent> <== For 3.10

timezone-africa
timezone-america
timezone-antarctica
timezone-arctic
timezone-asia
timezone-atlantic
timezone-australia
timezone-europe
timezone-indian
timezone-pacific

Your timezone entry can be found in the directory: /usr/share/zoneinfo/<your continent>/

wget: server returned error 404

At this moment (10/10/05), the ipkg install openntpd is kinda cracked (wrong feed), so to get it to work you should:

1. mv /etc/ipkg/native-feed.conf /etc/ipkg/native-feed.conf.saved
2. ipkg install openntpd
3. mv /etc/ipkg/native-feed.conf.saved /etc/ipkg/native-feed.conf

- Jelle

To get tickadj to be applied on my 2.5 system I had to run the command:

cd /etc/init.d
update-rc.d tickadj defaults

You can see the operation of the Openntpd program much better if you run it from the command line with these commands.

ps aux | grep ntpd (find any running copy of ntpd)
kill #### (where #### is the process id of the first ntpd listed)
repeat the above ps command to make sure all have been stopped
ntpd -d -s (run, set time immediately, show all output on the console)
Exit the running ntpd with a Ctrl-C

Continent and timezone for this command:

Your timezone entry can be found in the directory: /usr/share/zoneinfo/<your continent>/

-- oaks

timezones for this command:

timezones-africa
timezones-america
timezones-antarctica
timezones-arctic
timezones-asia
timezones-atlantic
timezones-australia
timezones-europe
timezones-indian
timezones-pacific

I had problems with time still drifting away after following this guide. The problem was the initial tickadj value of 10000. Adding the boot script 'tickadj' helped me. It takes the tick value from '\etc\default\rcS' (in my case 10101)

ln -s /etc/init.d/tickadj /etc/rcS.d/S20tickadj

-- oaks

If ntpd does not start, verify that you have a root-owned directory /var/shared/empty, and that you have a ntpd user in /etc/passwd with /var/shared/empty as homedir.

Note for OpenSlug 2.5-beta: I had problems with time still drifting away after following this guide. The problem was the initial tickadj value of 10000. Adding the boot script 'tickadj' helped me. It takes the tick value from '\etc\defaults\rcS' (in my case 10101)

ln -s /etc/init.d/tickadj /etc/rcS.d/S20tickadj

Installing OpenNTPD on OpenSlug!

OpenNTPD is very nice to run to keep your clock up to snuff. It's main advantages over the 'official' NTPD daemon is it does the same thing in one fifth as much code, meaning less RAM usage, and a much lower chance of security holes. But installing it is going to be confusing if you do not follow the correct steps.

You might want to check that your clock is somewhat accurate before installing, as OpenNTPD can't adjust the clock in large steps. It adjusts the clock with ~0.1 seconds every 4.5 minutes, so if your clock is two minutes off it'll take ages before the clock is accurate. \\

OpenNTPD is very nice to run to keep your clock up to snuff. But installing it is going to be confusing if you do not do the correct steps.

You might want to check that your clock is somewhat accurate before installing, as openntpd can't adjust the clock in large steps. It adjusts the clock with ~0.1 seconds every 4.5 minutes, so if your clock is two minutes off it'll take ages before the clock is accurate.
$ date MMDDHHMMCCYY (Example: 080514002005, for 14:00, the 5th of August 2005)

1. hwclock --systohc

1. hwclock --systohc

1. unset TZ (Or reboot. TZ will not be set once /etc/localtime exists)

1. mkdir /var/shared ; mkdir /var/shared/empty

1. ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/<your continent>/<Your timezone> /etc/localtime

1. ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/<your continent>/<Your timezone> /etc/localtime

1. reboot

OpenNTPD is very nice to run to keep your clock up to snuff. But installing it is going to be confusing if you do not do the correct steps:

1. ipkg install openntpd

1. ipkg install openntpd

OpenNTPD? is very nice to run to keep your clock up to snuff. But installing it is going to be confusing if you do not do the correct steps:

For OpenSlug >2.6-beta (or HEAD)

If ntpd does not start, verify that you have a root-owned directory /var/shared/empty, and that you have a ntpd user in /etc/passwd with /var/shared/empty as homedir.

Installing openntpd on OpenSlug!

Installing OpenNTPd? on OpenSlug!

openntpd is very nice to run to keep your clock up to snuff. But installing it is going to be confusing if you do not do the correct steps:

For OpenSlug 2.3-beta, 2.4-beta, 2.5-beta:

1. ipkg install ntp-tickadj
2. ipkg install openntpd
3. ipkg install timezones-<your continent>
4. ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/<your continent>/<Your timezone>
5. reboot

Verify that ntpd is running (ps aux)

For OpenSlug >2.6-beta

1. ipkg install openntpd
2. ipkg install timezones-<your-continent>
3. ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/<your continent>/<Your timezone>
4. reboot

Verify that ntpd is running (ps aux)

If ntpd does not start, verify that you have a root-owned directory /var/shared/empty, and that you have a ntpd user in /etc/passwd with /var/shared/empty as homedir.