Time and Date

[Mike McMullen]

> 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