Re: Auto updating the hardware clock on shutdown.

1997-04-21 Thread Daniel J. Mashao
On 12 Apr 1997, Rob Browning wrote: > I assumed that the hardware clock was always written to reflect the > current system time on shutdown. Is that true? The reason I ask is > because we just had the daylight savings switch here, and at least one > of my systems came up after a reboot with the

Re: Auto updating the hardware clock on shutdown.

1997-04-13 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes: > Now what might have happened is that you have your CMOS clock running on GMT. > Some BIOSes try to be smart and update the CMOS clock when you boot if they > see DST has come into effect since the latest reboot.. You should be able to > turn tha

Re: Auto updating the hardware clock on shutdown.

1997-04-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I assumed that the hardware clock was always written to reflect the >current system time on shutdown. Is that true? No, nothing touches the hardware clock until you tell it to (with clock(8)). >The reason I ask is >becaus

Re: Auto updating the hardware clock on shutdown.

1997-04-13 Thread Rob Browning
Perry Piplani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > man 8 clock > > to learn how your hardware clock is read to and written from. You can run > it in your shutdown script. > > I run it from a cron script that synchronizes to a timeserver first, my > system clock is 45 sec fast per day. > > Also, you ca

Re: Auto updating the hardware clock on shutdown.

1997-04-13 Thread Perry Piplani
On 12 Apr 1997, Rob Browning wrote: > > I assumed that the hardware clock was always written to reflect the > current system time on shutdown. Is that true? The reason I ask is > because we just had the daylight savings switch here, and at least one > of my systems came up after a reboot with t

Re: Auto updating the hardware clock on shutdown.

1997-04-13 Thread Paul Serice
> I assumed that the hardware clock was always written to reflect the > current system time on shutdown. Is that true? The reason I ask is > because we just had the daylight savings switch here, and at least one > of my systems came up after a reboot with the wrong time (it was an > hour off). I

Auto updating the hardware clock on shutdown.

1997-04-12 Thread Rob Browning
I assumed that the hardware clock was always written to reflect the current system time on shutdown. Is that true? The reason I ask is because we just had the daylight savings switch here, and at least one of my systems came up after a reboot with the wrong time (it was an hour off). If the clo