Re: Setting hwclock time
On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 10:20:46AM +0900, Jack Morgan wrote: haven't been installed yet. I believe that hwclock and date commands should help but I haven't got them to work. and no man pages :-( Question: how can I set my bios clock to this century? or a workaround for the future time stamp error from tar? Use date to set the system time, the format is date MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss] Then use hwclock --systohc to set the hardware clock from system time. Cheers, Tom pgpZQWXi4s7EL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Setting hwclock time
I just did a clean install of debian potato on my Toshiba 2100cds. My bios clock reads Thu Jan 4 23:17:51 JST 1990. So when I use dselect to install numerous packages it stalls due to tar archive error that says ...future time stamp..etc This is very frustrating since any info, e.g. man pages, haven't been installed yet. I believe that hwclock and date commands should help but I haven't got them to work. and no man pages :-( Question: how can I set my bios clock to this century? or a workaround for the future time stamp error from tar? Thanks for any help Jack Morgan Useful search interfaces to the man pages can be found at: http://linux.wiw.org/doc/man/ and http://linux.com.hk/man/. -- -- Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting hwclock time
Jack, Shaul has replied with reference material, but I had some problems with setting the hw clock. I got many answers =-- new bios, etc. Then someone suggested that I reboot with a dos floppy, set the hw clock to this century and that fixed my problem with two old machines. It is worth a try. Hope this helps. --David On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Shaul Karl wrote: I just did a clean install of debian potato on my Toshiba 2100cds. My bios clock reads Thu Jan 4 23:17:51 JST 1990. So when I use dselect to install numerous packages it stalls due to tar archive error that says ...future time stamp..etc This is very frustrating since any info, e.g. man pages, haven't been installed yet. I believe that hwclock and date commands should help but I haven't got them to work. and no man pages :-( Question: how can I set my bios clock to this century? or a workaround for the future time stamp error from tar? Thanks for any help Jack Morgan Useful search interfaces to the man pages can be found at: http://linux.wiw.org/doc/man/ and http://linux.com.hk/man/. -- -- Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (I hope this is all of the above.)
Re: Setting hwclock Time
Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have hwclock running? I will assume you have it but no man pages yet. Basically, you enter a command like: hwclock --set --date=9/22/96 16:45:05 This sets the bios clock to the correct time. Just change the part in quotes. Then you want to have the hwclock set the system time for you. Try doing a: hwclock --hctosys From the man page for this command: --hctosys Set the System Time from the Hardware Clock. Also set the kernel's timezone value to the local timezone as indicated by the TZ environment vari able and/or /usr/lib/zoneinfo, as tzset(3) would interpret them. EXCEPT: always set the Daylight Savings Time part of the kernel's timezone value to 0 (not Daylight Savings Time). If DST is indi cated, just add an hour to the base part. Many thanks!! This worked so well that I think I will name my next kid after you! Jack Morgan
Setting hwclock time
I just did a clean install of debian potato on my Toshiba 2100cds. My bios clock reads Thu Jan 4 23:17:51 JST 1990. So when I use dselect to install numerous packages it stalls due to tar archive error that says ...future time stamp..etc This is very frustrating since any info, e.g. man pages, haven't been installed yet. I believe that hwclock and date commands should help but I haven't got them to work. and no man pages :-( Question: how can I set my bios clock to this century? or a workaround for the future time stamp error from tar? Thanks for any help Jack Morgan
