RE: Date Problems...

2001-07-17 Thread Ian Perry
command 'hwclock --systohc' to set the clock to the system time after a date command. Ian -Original Message- From: Ari Pollak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 1:53 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Date Problems... First of all, I don't t

Re: Date Problems...

2001-07-17 Thread Calvin Chong
on 7/18/01 11:34 AM, Leonard Leblanc at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey All, > > This is probably going to be an easy question for most of you, but I can't > seem to get a grasp on what the problem is... > > # hwclock > Tue Jul 17 22:38:11 2001 -0.044470 seconds > # hwclock --localtime > Wed Jul

Re: Date Problems...

2001-07-17 Thread Ari Pollak
First of all, I don't think that's the real 'uname -a' output. uname -a has more than just the date. Second of all, the hardware clock and the system (Linux) clock are different. if you type the command 'date', you'll probably get the same output as uname. To transfer the hardware clock to the syst

Date Problems...

2001-07-17 Thread Leonard Leblanc
Hey All, This is probably going to be an easy question for most of you, but I can't seem to get a grasp on what the problem is... # hwclock Tue Jul 17 22:38:11 2001 -0.044470 seconds # hwclock --localtime Wed Jul 18 03:37:34 2001 -0.558978 seconds # uname -a Sat Nov 18 18:47:15 EST 2000

Re: time/date problems

2000-02-12 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 11:42:26AM +, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > I'll look at this when I have some time, but when my machine shuts > down I see a message saying "hardware clock being updated" or > something like that. This behavior may be part of the ntpdate > package, I didn't consider

Re: time/date problems

2000-02-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Ed Cogburn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > This isn't exactly true. You can keep your hardware clock on local, > > and you can tell Linux to use local time (keeping it from messing > > around). Linux does not set my hardware clock to GMT at shutdown, it > > set

Re: time/date problems

2000-02-11 Thread Brad
On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 02:32:16AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > I don't think Linux will adjust for Daylight savings unless the > hardware clock is in GMT, otherwise it would just end up being a race > condition with the broken OS also installed (why else would you have > your HW clock set to lo

Re: time/date problems

2000-02-11 Thread David Wright
Quoting Ed Cogburn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > This isn't exactly true. You can keep your hardware clock on local, > and you can tell Linux to use local time (keeping it from messing > around). Linux does not set my hardware clock to GMT at shutdown, it > sets it with local time, which is wha

Re: time/date problems

2000-02-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 10:52:47AM +, Ed Cogburn wrote: I wrote: > > if you must have correct time in windows you will have to reconfigure > > linux to keep time in local time instead of GMT. [...] > ^^ > > This isn't

Re: time/date problems

2000-02-11 Thread Ed Cogburn
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 09:23:36AM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi > > > > i am running slink 2.1 with kernel 2.0.36 on a Dell Power Edge 2100 and i > > am having problems with the time. Basically what happens is that once i > > set up the correct date/time in BIOS.

London not = GMT/UTC (was Re: time/date problems)

2000-02-11 Thread David Wright
Quoting Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > if you must have correct time in windows you will have to reconfigure > linux to keep time in local time instead of GMT. personally i just > set the broken OS's (in my case MacOS) timezone to London, England > (GMT) so it won't corrupt the hardware cl

time/date problems solved

2000-02-11 Thread zdrysdal
> i am running slink 2.1 with kernel 2.0.36 on a Dell Power Edge 2100 and i > am having problems with the time. Basically what happens is that once i > set up the correct date/time in BIOS...when i load up linux the time & date > get's corrupted. Hiya problem solved... i had to set GMT="" in t

Re: time/date problems

2000-02-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 09:23:36AM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > i am running slink 2.1 with kernel 2.0.36 on a Dell Power Edge 2100 and i > am having problems with the time. Basically what happens is that once i > set up the correct date/time in BIOS...when i load up linux the time &

time/date problems

2000-02-10 Thread zdrysdal
Hi i am running slink 2.1 with kernel 2.0.36 on a Dell Power Edge 2100 and i am having problems with the time. Basically what happens is that once i set up the correct date/time in BIOS...when i load up linux the time & date get's corrupted. eg. real date time is 11-Feb 09:36. When i load lin

Re: Date Problems and more

1999-03-05 Thread D Richards
First off thanks to everyone who replied to my first problem. I was actually trying to just change the hour and nothing else using the 'date' command. Duh! Ok my brother is wanting to install Debian on his home machine, after I've been telling him how great the support is from you guys and how

Re: Date Problems

1999-03-01 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 01:10:08AM -0500, D Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've just reinstalled debian hamm on my new 2.5 gig HD with no problems. > Except I can't seem to understand the correct syntax for setting my system > date and time using 'date'. > > Can anyone give me an exam

Re: Date Problems

1999-03-01 Thread wtopa
Subject: Date Problems Date: Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 01:10:08AM -0500 In reply to:D Richards Quoting D Richards([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hello > > I've just reinstalled debian hamm on my new 2.5 gig HD with no problems. > Except I can't seem to understa

Re: Date Problems

1999-02-28 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 01:10:08AM -0500, D Richards wrote: > Hello > > I've just reinstalled debian hamm on my new 2.5 gig HD with no problems. > Except I can't seem to understand the correct syntax for setting my system > date and time using 'date'. > > Can anyone give me an example with an

Date Problems

1999-02-28 Thread D Richards
Hello I've just reinstalled debian hamm on my new 2.5 gig HD with no problems. Except I can't seem to understand the correct syntax for setting my system date and time using 'date'. Can anyone give me an example with an explanation TIA Duane Richards