On 01/08/2019 19:13, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, August 01, 2019 01:49:34 PM Felix Miata wrote: >> I have a bunch of old Dells. When left unconnected to power, some wear down >> the 2032 coin cell CMOS batteries with unusual haste. Once this happens >> and the battery is replaced, reconfiguring the BIOS is required, unless >> 100% use of defaults proves acceptable, which because of the date and time >> at least, for me is never. > I know this is off point (because you are not the original poster, who, iirc, > is blind or partially blind), but, if the only reason to reconfigure the BIOS > is to set the correct date and time, an alternate would be to boot with the > wrong time, then use, set the (software) clock to the correct time (possibly > using the utility that syncs to the atomic clocks in Colorado or wherever, > and > then using that other utility that lets you set the hardware clock from the > software clock. > > I forget the names of those various utilities ;-) >
I think one is ntp (network time protocol) Paul -- Paul Sutton http://www.zleap.net gnupg : 7D6D B682 F351 8D08 1893 1E16 F086 5537 D066 302D https://fediverse.party/ - zl...@social.isurf.ca
