On Wednesday 11 May 2011 03:53:06 Walter Dnes wrote:
>   Like the subject says, rdate has stopped working for me.  I tried
> different timeservers, with and without iptables firewall, and it always
> times out.  /var/log/portage shows that I emerged the current version of
> rdate back in early August last year.  I just updated to baselayout 2 so
> I wonder if it's involved.  revdep-rebuild doesn't find any problems.
> And I do have /etc/timezone set up...
> 
> [i3][root][~] cat /etc/timezone
> Canada/Eastern
> 
>   The machine is amd64 stable.

I recall that not all ntp servers respond to rdate - perhaps the server(s) you 
tried have changed their configuration?
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Regards,
Mick