Re: Problems with 32 bit Jessie and Mate DE

[Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com>]

On Saturday 20 June 2015 05:53:47 Curt wrote:
> On 2015-06-19, Nick <nmb@nickbooker.uk> wrote:
> > On 17/06/15 17:56, Curt wrote:
> >> That's strange; I always thought you had to set the hardware clock
> >> (hwclock) for the modified date and time to survive a reboot.
> >
> > I always thought the current time on the system clock was saved back
> > to the hardware clock again during shutdown too.
>
> Not according to the wiki here:
> https://wiki.debian.org/DateTime
>
>  Set the time manually
>
>  When setting the time manually, the time string may be confusing. The
> command date --set ... accepts <snip>.
>
>      date --set 1998-11-02
>      date --set 21:08:00
>
>  The above two commands set the system date to second of November,
> 1998, and system time to eight minutes past nine, PM.
>
>  Note, this has no effect on the underlying hardware's hardware clock.
> When the system next boots, it will revert back to the original date
> and time (relatively speaking).
>
>  Setting the hardware clock
>
>  To write the correct current system time to the hardware clock so the
> system comes up with the correct date and time, correct the system
> time as above, then see command hwclock
>
> Nor the system administration doc here:
> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/system-administrator/ch-sysadmin-ti
>me.html
>
>  If you use the date command to change time, it is worth setting also
> the hardware clock to the correct time. Otherwise, the time is wrong
> after the next reboot, since the hardware clock keeps the time when
> power is turned off. When the clock in the operating system shows the
> correct time, set the hardware clock like this:
>
> To hedge my bets, perhaps something has escaped me.

Most folks keep the hardware clock on GMT, and then the automatic 
translations of tzdata govern the local clock.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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