This lesson covers system time.

Objectives and Skills

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

Multimedia

Activities

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

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