Re: clock problem

[Michal Jaegermann <michal ellpspace math ualberta ca>]

Larry Snyder wrote:
> 
> I'd heard
> that the latest versions of clock don't need the -A, but don't know
> what ships w/ 5.2.

/sbin/clock which comes with 5.2 accepts -A option, for a backward
compatibility, but simply ignores it.  So you are on the safe side
using -A when you boot from ARC (and derivatives, i.e. other firmware
designed to boot in principle NT).

> "greg meno" <capt_n_emo@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > well,
> > 
> > 	I just reinstalled rh 5.2 and like an idiot i chose hardware clock set 
> > to GMT, and now my clock reads 5 hrs off

If you have 'UTC=true' in /etc/sysconfig/clock then your console time
is off (it should be UTC).  If you have 'UTC=false' - change it.

'clock -w', or 'clock -uw' writes hardware time.  See 'man clock'
for more information.

If you do not have M$ on you machine then keeping hardware time in UTC
is like it should be.  It does not jump there and back as your local
time likely does (twice a year).

    Michal