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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