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Originally posted by trickykid check this link out, its the man pages online with all your clock needs within linux. http://linux.ctyme.com/man/man0199.htm
is there a way known to man, woman, child, or animal to use hwclock to keep the time on the linux system and then somehow set the bios (cmos) clock to stop when the system shuts down then upon reboot continues the time from when it was last left off??
for example:
i shutdown the computer at 10:01 pm then when i get up in the morning i boot up and the time still says 10:01 pm or maybe 10:02 pm...
if someone tells me to look at the manpage one more time, i will be pissed as i have scoured the man pages and find nothing
you can use the setclock or timeconfig commands.. not sure of any syntaxes or whatever.. not in from of my machine.. and to tell you the truth.. its been a long time since I even set the clock on my system. kind of ironic.. i always just look at my watch on my hand.. and never worry about the dates on the files.. i'm so organized...
Originally posted by philfighter is there a way known to man, woman, child, or animal to use hwclock to keep the time on the linux system and then somehow set the bios (cmos) clock to stop when the system shuts down then upon reboot continues the time from when it was last left off??
for example:
i shutdown the computer at 10:01 pm then when i get up in the morning i boot up and the time still says 10:01 pm or maybe 10:02 pm...
I'm completely at a loss as to why you would want to do this. It's just so completely opposite of the concept of the correct time. Most utilities that btw, haven't been mentioned have to do with making sure the system has the "correct" time. When i say time i of course really mean date/time.
Those utilities use a network connection or some other hardware device to sync the computer's clock with that of some external time source, like an atomic clock.
Anyways, here's another source of clock info, and has a bit info on the external clock synching options as well.
Originally posted by trickykid
nope i don't, my own opinion tells me it sucks.. that is why its not included now in some later distro's. i feel more comfortable editing by hand.
ummm... i just don't feel it totally works and it actually doesn't. it hasn't been officially okay'd by alot of the open source communities/companies and that is one reason why Redhat by default doesn't include it on its version now even. They only supply it on cd for those who do want it though.
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