Change the time and date

[Res]

On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Mike McCarty wrote:

> Tim wrote:
>> eng.waleed:
>> 
>>>> how  can I set the time and the date on FC3 from command line
>> 
>> 
>> Brad Bonkoski: 
>>> man date
>> 
>> 
>> An alternative is ntpdate.  That'll set your clock according to a
>
> I use this little script (as root)
>
> rdate -p -s time.nist.gov
> /sbin/hwclock --systohc


and maybe add to  /etc/crontab

0 * * * * root (rdate -p -s -u 192.43.244.18 ; hwclock --systohc) > /dev/null 2>&1


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Res

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