Re: netdate

[Michael Stone <mstone@itri.loyola.edu>]

Quoting Steve Lamb (morpheus@teleute.ml.org):
>     I use netdate to sync my machine's clock to several other clocks. 
> However, netdate does not change the BIOS clock along with the system clock
> so each time my machine is rebooted (which is often right now, nasty memory
> leak somewhere) the clock is out of sync again.  This is also happening on my
> laptop.  How can I set the BIOS clock from inside Linux and is there a time
> syncing program which can poll other machines and do this?

hwclock --systohc

You might want to add a --utc if your clock is set to GMT. I don't know
of a time program that does this. It shouldn't be a big deal to add this
to your shutdown routine.

Mike Stone