Re: updating of CMOS clock
I was looking to find out what package hwclock belongs to but could not
find it listed in the dselect program. Does anyone know what package this
belongs to? Also it looks like timezone is no longer a package under
Potato, what has replaced it?
Thanks,
Ken Rea
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Brad wrote:
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> On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Brian May wrote:
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> > However, I myself would do the following:
> >
> > 1. With computer booted, edit /etc/default/rcS and sent GMT as required:
> >
> > >Here is the relevant setting from my /etc/default/rcS:
> > >
> > ># Set GMT="-u" if your system clock is set to GMT, and GMT="" if not.
> > >GMT=""
> >
> > (I think this has changed for potato).
>
> For potato, this is the relavent section of that file:
> # Set UTC to yes or no
> UTC=yes
> Yes if your clock is in GMT, obviously. UTC is French for "Coordinated
> Universal Time" IIRC.
>
> > 2. Now updated you CMOS clock by typing in:
> >
> > /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh stop
>
> You may want to rm the .etc.adjtime file right away then. Otherwise, it
> _might_ think your clock is suddenly several hours off and screw things
> up. The file will be recreated next time you shut down normally.
>
> YMMV. Maybe it was just totally confused on my machine because i was
> testing if St. Tib's Day was outputting properly in an app i was
> writing...
>
> > (really dumb idiotic off-topic question - is it possible to setup
> > Windoze so that it will work when the CMOS clock is GMT? My guess: Of
> > course not!)
>
> i haven't used windoze enough to check it, but i just set the date/time
> thing in there to GMT and no daylight savings time update. Works perfectly
> fine. The only problem then is that the windoze clock displays in GMT ;)
>
> As an indication of how often i use windoze, about every third time it
> used to reset my clock because of DST.
>
>
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