Re: updating the hwclock and kernel clock?

[Paul Slootman <paul@wau.mis.ah.nl>]

On Wed 03 Nov 1999, Ron Farrer wrote:
> 
> I can use rdate to sync the kernel time to the correct, but how do I update the hardware time to the same? I've looked into ntd but it's not what I'm looking for. Basically I've already used rdate to get the correct time and now I want to update the hwclock. 

Basically it's "hwclock --systohc". Add --utc if you run the hardware
time on UTC (as you should :-).

Note that debian does this automatically when you shutdown...


PS: please try to limit your line length to 70 or so, that makes it
easier to read and easier to cut down on the quoted text.

Paul Slootman
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