From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from tcsnpop1.tcsn.uswest.net ([207.108.112.1]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with smtp (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 15z4AQ-0004uP-00 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 17:49:02 -0500 Received: (qmail 29892 invoked by uid 50); 31 Oct 2001 22:48:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 28107 invoked by uid 0); 31 Oct 2001 22:48:00 -0000 Received: from tcsndslgw4poolc88.tcsn.uswest.net (HELO lightstar) (65.100.97.88) by tcsnpop1.tcsn.uswest.net with SMTP; 31 Oct 2001 22:48:00 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Jason To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: date Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:48:08 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01103115480804.04435@lightstar> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: 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. >