Time and Date

[Don Dupy]

You guys amaze me...........
Where else can a person get this kind of support for a free OS?
NOWHERE!!!
You guys (and Gals) all RULE!!

thanks a bunch!!!

Don Dupy
Systems Administrator
Maxxrad PC Services
http://www.maxxrad.net
email: fedora at maxxrad.net

On Sat, 29 May 2004, Andre Costa wrote:

> On Sat, 29 May 2004 10:44:59 -0700
> "Mike McMullen" <mlm at loanprocessing.net> wrote:
>
> > > IIRC, if you don't set hardware clock afterwards, new time won't
> > > "stick" after a reboot. I guess you should use
> > >
> > > hwclock --hctosys
> > >
> > > after the 'date' command. hwclock can also set the date/time
> > > directly, check its manpage.
> > >
> > > HTH
> > >
> > > Andre
> > >
> > > PS: UTC/localtime might also be an issue if you're running a
> > > dual-boot machine, because settings for one OS might differ from the
> > > other.
> > >
> > Maybe it's hardware specific but when I reboot or shutdown one of the
> > last messages displayed is something like "saving time to system
> > clock".
> >
> > Using date hasn't been an issue for me.
> >
> > Mike
>
> You're right, just checked: hwclock is automatically called by
> /etc/init.d/halt:
>
> runcmd $"Syncing hardware clock to system time" /sbin/hwclock
> $CLOCKFLAGS
>
> Sorry for the noise =} (haven't dealt with that in a long time...)
>
> Best,
>
> Andre
>
> --
> Andre Oliveira da Costa
>
>
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