Re: Auto updating the hardware clock on shutdown.
On 12 Apr 1997, Rob Browning wrote:
>
> I assumed that the hardware clock was always written to reflect the
> current system time on shutdown. Is that true? The reason I ask is
> because we just had the daylight savings switch here, and at least one
> of my systems came up after a reboot with the wrong time (it was an
> hour off). If the clock is not by default written at shutdown, what's
> the best way to make sure that it is, an appropriate rc.d script
> perhaps?
>
Type:
man 8 clock
to learn how your hardware clock is read to and written from. You can run
it in your shutdown script.
I run it from a cron script that synchronizes to a timeserver first, my
system clock is 45 sec fast per day.
Also, you can can configure your system to use GMT on your hardware clock.
See /etc/init.d/boot
Perry
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