Sorry... there is a mistake in my message. "system clock is the clock of your motherboard"
should be "hardware clock is the clock of your motherboard" Sorry for the mistake. I hope I did not confused you. On 4/2/06, Technomancer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In Linux you have the system clock and the hardware clock. The system > clock is the clock of your motherboard that can be set in the bios > setup. > > To set the system clock, the command is: > > date mmddhhmmyyyy > > To set the hardware clock, use the command: > > hwclock --set --date="mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss" > > To set the system clock from the hw clock: > > hwclock --hctosys > > To set the hw clock from the system clock: > > hwclock --systohc > > Consult "man date" and "man hwclock" for more details. > > On 4/1/06, Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 03:20 +0200, Daniel Waeber wrote: > > > hi > > > > > > i have a problem with changing the time/date of my computer. I only can > > > change it temporally till the next reboot. I tried date and ntptime to > > > set it. after setting it the system shows the right time, but after a > > > reboot i have the old time again. i have no other system running on the > > > computer that could change the time, so it is a problem with > > > linux/gentoo. do i somehow have to finalize the setting? > > > > > > thanks in advance ! > > > > Edit /etc/conf.d/clock and set CLOCK_SYSTOHC to "yes". This will sync > > your hardware clock to your system time when you shutdown/reboot. > > > > Jim > > -- > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > I'm a geek, but I don't get it. 36-24-36 = -24. What's the significance? > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > Florida, USA, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way > > > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
