Linux Administration/System Services/System Time

This lesson covers system time.

Objectives and Skills

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Objectives and skills for the system time portion of Linux+ certification include:[1]

  • Maintain system time
    • Set the system date and time
    • Set the hardware clock to the correct time in UTC
    • Configure the correct timezone
    • Basic NTP configuration
    • Knowledge of using the pool.ntp.org service
    • Awareness of the ntpq command
    • The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
      • /usr/share/zoneinfo
      • /etc/timezone
      • /etc/localtime
      • /etc/ntp.conf
      • date
      • timedatectl
      • hwclock
      • ntpd, ntpq
      • ntpdate
      • pool.ntp.org

Readings

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Multimedia

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Activities

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  1. Complete the tutorial IBM: Learn Linux, 101: Maintain system time. Includes ammong others information about date command , tzselect and ntp configurations.

Lesson Summary

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Key Terms

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References

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