Incoming from Brian Brazil: > On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 06:32:34PM +0100, Stefan Bellon wrote: > > Being used to that, I did the same for the notebook. But on the > > notebook there's another operating system present which assumes the > > hardware clock stores local time. > > > > How can I reconfigure this setting with Debian GNU/Linux unstable? > > I believe the relavent file is /etc/adjtime.
I think adjtime is intended for managing clock drift, though I see from catting it, it does have "UTC" in it. Hmm ... > Use 'base-config' to change it. > See hwclock(8) for more information. 'date' is also handy. date -s '+Sat Jul 28 14:23:25 UTC 2001' # edit to taste. hwclock --adjust # fiddles/updates adjtime hwclock --systohc # write systime to bios clock At least, I think that's how it's supposed to work. Then have cron do "/sbin/hwclock --hctosys --utc" daily. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
