hi
i have a problem with changing the time/date of my computer. I only can
change it temporally till the next reboot. I tried date and ntptime to
set it. after setting it the system shows the right time, but after a
reboot i have the old time again. i have no other system running on the
computer t
On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 03:20 +0200, Daniel Waeber wrote:
> hi
>
> i have a problem with changing the time/date of my computer. I only can
> change it temporally till the next reboot. I tried date and ntptime to
> set it. after setting it the system shows the right time, but after a
> reboot i have
In Linux you have the system clock and the hardware clock. The system
clock is the clock of your motherboard that can be set in the bios
setup.
To set the system clock, the command is:
date mmddhhmm
To set the hardware clock, use the command:
hwclock --set --date="mm/dd/ hh:mm:ss"
To s
Sorry... there is a mistake in my message.
"system clock is the clock of your motherboard"
should be
"hardware clock is the clock of your motherboard"
Sorry for the mistake. I hope I did not confused you.
On 4/2/06, Technomancer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In Linux you have the system clock a
thank you for your help, everything is running perfect now :)
it's easy if you know the difference between system and hwclock, but
confusing if you only now about the date program. it would be nice if
there would be a link to hwclock in the manpage of date, like it is the
other way round. but
Daniel Waeber wrote:
hi
i have a problem with changing the time/date of my computer. I only can
change it temporally till the next reboot. I tried date and ntptime to
set it. after setting it the system shows the right time, but after a
reboot i have the old time again. i have no other system r
Daniel Waeber wrote:
> (should i just write a mail to bug-coreutils@gnu.org,
> like the man page says?)
Yes. Better still: include a patch with the proposed change.
Benno
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