Re: Setting system time.

1999-12-16 Thread linuxdevil
Thank you all for your suggestions! It appears I'm not the only person who's had this problem. :) I'll try these out until I find one that works. Thanks again! Aaron -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Setting system time.

1999-12-15 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 11:34:04PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: On 14 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clock, and date, and while each of these will set my system clock when I execute them, the time will not survive a reboot. My system clock The tool you want is '/usr/sbin/setclock'

Re: Setting system time.

1999-12-15 Thread J. Scott Kasten
Well, there's a couple things here to keep in mind. First, when you set the system time, all you're doing is setting the SOFTWARE clock, which of course gets it's time initially from the hardware on boot. You can set the hardware clock from the SOFTWARE clock. "man hwclock" However, there are

Re: Setting system time.

1999-12-15 Thread Stefan Smietanowski
Hi. Can someone help me figure out how to set the friggin' clock on my system? I'm running Red Hat 6.1. I've tried timeconfig, timetool, clock, and date, and while each of these will set my system clock when I execute them, the time will not survive a reboot. My system clock is off by

RE: Setting system time.

1999-12-15 Thread Todd Dunbebin
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 11:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Setting system time. Hi. Can someone help me figure out how to set the friggin' clock on my system? I'm running Red Hat 6.1. I've tried timeconfig, timetool, clock, and date, and while

Re: Setting system time.

1999-12-15 Thread Merell L. Matlock, Jr.
* Todd A. Jacobs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [991215 12:53]: On 14 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clock, and date, and while each of these will set my system clock when I execute them, the time will not survive a reboot. My system clock The tool you want is '/usr/sbin/setclock' which you

Re: Setting system time.

1999-12-15 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Hi, I had lots of problems with my clocks. Then I started to execute: #hwclock --set --date="`rdate -p ben.cs.wisc.edu | cut -f 2`" --utc #rdate -s ben.cs.wisc.edu from my ip-up.local whenever I did dial-up. After about a week, my hardware clock was stable. Now I rarely see any clock drift at

Re: Setting system time.

1999-12-15 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 11:12:10PM +0100, Gustav Schaffter wrote: Hi, I had lots of problems with my clocks. Then I started to execute: #hwclock --set --date="`rdate -p ben.cs.wisc.edu | cut -f 2`" --utc #rdate -s ben.cs.wisc.edu from my ip-up.local whenever I did dial-up. After about

Re: Setting system time.

1999-12-15 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
At 09:52 AM 12/15/99 -0500, J. Scott Kasten wrote: Well, there's a couple things here to keep in mind. First, when you set the system time, all you're doing is setting the SOFTWARE clock, which of course gets it's time initially from the hardware on boot. You can set the hardware clock from the

RE: Setting system time.

1999-12-14 Thread Jamie Carl
I've had this problem too. Try setting it through the control panel section of linuxconf. That's seems to work for me. J -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 15 December 1999 4:45 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Setting system time.

Re: Setting system time.

1999-12-14 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On 14 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clock, and date, and while each of these will set my system clock when I execute them, the time will not survive a reboot. My system clock The tool you want is '/usr/sbin/setclock' which you can find out about with 'man setclock'. Running '/sbin/clock