Thanks for all your help.. it is working.. my Bios is password protected by
this compputers previous owner.. and apparently is unreachable :) so the
HWclock worked great.
Thanks,
Heather
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> Heather,
>
> If you use date to set the clock, that has no effect on the clock that
> runs even when the machine is off or booting. You can use hwclock to
> set that. It has a pretty good man page that is worth a read. A low
> battery will cause erratic behavior from the clock, and possibly from
> the BIOS (it stores other hardware config settings as well). If you
> can't find the battery, it may well be built right in to the clock chip.
>
> Lawson
> >< Microsoft free environment
>
> This mail client runs on Wine. Your mileage may vary.
>
> On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Raven wrote:
>
> > Gang,
> >
> > I can set the date on my clock .. but have to do so each time i reboot
> > Linux. Why is it not storing it.. low battery? any other ideas? and
> how
> > do you set the time along with the date.. For some reason this just
> > escapes me?
> >
> > Thanks..
> >
> > --
> > Heather Williamson
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > "Beer is proof that God wants us to be happy." - Benjamin Franklin
> >
> >
> >
>
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