Linux Administration/System Services/System Time

This lesson covers system time.

Objectives and Skills
Objectives and skills for the system time portion of Linux+ certification include:
 * 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
 * pool.ntp.org
 * pool.ntp.org
 * pool.ntp.org
 * pool.ntp.org
 * pool.ntp.org
 * pool.ntp.org

Activities

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