Setting the clock
Bob Chiodini
rchiodin at bellsouth.net
Sat Feb 26 15:55:32 UTC 2005
On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 09:00 -0600, Bill Gradwohl wrote:
> Ludwig Goon wrote:
>
> > There was a trick with redhat 9 to set the clock such that it wouldn't
> > interfere with
> > windows' clock when I dual booted. Does anyone know of the command ?
> >
> >
> > -lg
> >
> If you just use the date command, that does not touch the hardware
> clock. Its the hardware clock that provides date & time at boot up.
>
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> Bill Gradwohl
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hwclock is the utility to set the hardware clock from the system
(software) clock. Both windows and Linux read the H/W clock at boot up
and if you set up a NTP server at Fedora installation it will go out and
reset your software clock (within limits) at boot up. Fedora also saves
your software clock to the H/W clock at shutdown. You would have to
edit /etc/init.d/halt to stop the synchronization.
Bob...
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