[lug] date

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 12:30:34PM +0000, chrism at pop.peakpeak.com wrote:
>/sbin/clock -w writes the current time to BIOS I believe.

You have to be careful that you specify the "-a" and "-u" flags, though:

	[root at testbox2 jafo]# date
	Sat Oct  2 14:06:29 MDT 1999
	[root at testbox2 jafo]# /sbin/clock -r
	Sat Oct  2 20:07:10 1999  -0.846650 seconds
	[root at testbox2 jafo]# /sbin/clock -ru
	Sat Oct  2 14:07:12 1999  -0.206754 seconds
	[root at testbox2 jafo]# /sbin/clock -wu
	[root at testbox2 jafo]# 

If I had done a "clock -w", it would have come up 6 hours off the next time
I rebooted.  The difference is wether you set the BIOS clock to UTC, or to
local time...  As you can see, I prefer UTC.

Sean
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