[lug] date

[Dale Harris]

On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 12:30:34PM +0000, chrism at pop.peakpeak.com elucidated:
> > oh man, maybe I need to get out more...
> > or perhaps its too early this morning....
> > > is there a way to set the CMOS time from linux?
> > 
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> /sbin/clock -w writes the current time to BIOS I believe.
> 
> Of course, you *are* running xntpd right?
> 
> Chris
> 

xntpd would to the trick.  On some linux systems you might have hwclock
(hwclock 2.4/util-linux 2.9i).  In which case you'd do:

hwclock --systohc --utc

and then you'd only use --utc if your CMOS clock was in UTC, which it 
probably should be.


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