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From: Jason <unleet@qwest.net>
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: date
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:48:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <01103115480804.04435@lightstar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E041C927721AD51196B800508BAE8CDA511673@ntexch02.ahcccs.state.az.us>

I meant the system time automatically updating for daylight savings should 
happen if you have your time zone set properly, and your hardware clock set 
for GMT.


> From the stuff I've read before on the subject, I thought the date command
> wouldn't update the hardware clock but the clock command would; hence the
> script I posted up here several days ago.  Basically, I did a netdate deal
> to pull the time from a time server and then used the clock command to
> update it if the netdate command was successful. I generally use the date
> command in a alias with the %mm%yy%dd construct to give me a quick
> date/time command I can run from the keyboard.
> AFAIK time will update automatically if you store it in the hardware clock
> in
> GMT, but not in local time.
> > Weird.  On both my slackware and debian systems the time updated
> > automatically.
>


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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 date Holmes, Steve
 ` Jason [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
 date Tyler Spivey
 ` date Raul A . Gallegos
   ` date Jason
   ` date Deedra Waters
     ` date Janina Sajka
       ` date Buddy Brannan
         ` date Gregory Nowak
           ` date Adam Myrow
 ` date Kirk Wood
   ` date jwantz

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