Linux Administration/System Services/System Time
This lesson covers system time.
Objectives and Skills
editObjectives 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
editMultimedia
editActivities
edit- Complete the tutorial IBM: Learn Linux, 101: Maintain system time. Includes ammong others information about date command , tzselect and ntp configurations.