On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 11:34:04PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> On 14 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > clock, and date, and while each of these will set my system clock when
> > I execute them, the time will not survive a reboot. My system clock
>
> The tool you want is '/usr/sbin/setclock' which you can find out about
> with 'man setclock'. Running '/sbin/clock -w' should do the same thing,
> but man 5 clock doesn't exist on my system, nor have I been able to find
> it elsewhere, making that method effectively undocumented, as far as I'm
> concerned.
I believe 'clock' has been replaced with 'hwclock'.
> One other point I should mention: on my system, '/sbin/clock -ru' reports
> UTC incorrectly, and rebooting seems to throw off the system clock by
> about 30 minutes, despite accurate CMOS time. I recommend running rdate
> followed by setclock as part of your daily system maintenance to keep
> everything in sync despite any weirdness that may exist on your system.
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