Two config issues

I'm a Mac OS X newbie with a long Unix background.

Under System Preferences -> International (IIRC) I configured my
system (Tiger, for now) to use metric units. But the Dashboard weather
widget is displaying temperatures in Fahrenheit. How can I change
that? And BTW where does the weather information come from?

Also, how can I tell the system to use a different NTP server than the
2 or 3 choices provided? I have my own stratum 2 server that the rest
of my network syncs to, and would like to use that instead.

/gordon

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Gordon Beaton <> wrote:

> I'm a Mac OS X newbie with a long Unix background.

Welcome!

> Under System Preferences -> International (IIRC) I configured my
> system (Tiger, for now) to use metric units. But the Dashboard weather
> widget is displaying temperatures in Fahrenheit. How can I change
> that? And BTW where does the weather information come from?

The Dashboard widget has a separate setting. Click on the "i" which
appears in the bottom right corner of the widget when you point to it.
This will flip the widget over, and you can choose the temperature units
and a few other settings.

This also reveals that it uses AccuWeather.com.

> Also, how can I tell the system to use a different NTP server than the
> 2 or 3 choices provided? I have my own stratum 2 server that the rest
> of my network syncs to, and would like to use that instead.

The time server field is editable. Select the text and type in the IP
address or domain name of your NTP server.

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David Empson

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:32:00 +1300, David Empson wrote:
> The Dashboard widget has a separate setting. Click on the "i" which

Ahh, and here I was wondering where they'd hidden File->Preferences...

> The time server field is editable. Select the text and type in the IP
> address or domain name of your NTP server.

Didn't think of that, I thought I'd have to edit /etc/ntp.conf.

Thanks!

/gordon

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On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:46:14 -0600, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
> If you want to adjust things like minpoll and maxpoll then you will
> have to edit /etc/ntp.conf If you are polling your own server you
> may wish to adjust minpoll since Apple sets that high.
>
> Maybe you will have better luck than me, but I also found that every
> time I opened Date and Time preferences it overwrote my
> /etc/ntp.conf even if I set the lock on the configuration. In the
> end, I set the permissions on that file to 444 which worked.

I'll have a look, thanks. I saw your discussion about this from
earlier this year while I was browsing the newsgroup archive before I
posted.

> You mentioned that you have your own stratum 2 server. I hope you
> have considered adding it to pool.ntp.org.

Well not really, its purpose is simply to prevent a number of my own
NTP clients from bothering the big boys, and it isn't visible outside
the network. It connects to a nearby open access stratum 1 from this
list:

http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Serv...OneTimeServers

/gordon

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