RE: Setting System Time

["Burke, Thomas G." <thomas_g_burke md northgrum com>]

If the box is automatically going online when it starts, do what I do.

In cron.hourly put a script called time with the following inside it:

#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/rdate -s time.nist.gov

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	NJ Orange [SMTP:njorange hotmail com]
> Sent:	Monday, June 12, 2000 12:42 PM
> To:	redhat-install-list redhat com
> Subject:	Setting System Time
> 
> I recently installed RedHat 6.0 and the time comes up wrong. It comes up
> as 
> 12/18/92 for some reason. I log in as root and try to set the time using
> the 
> time tool and it appears to take but upon reboot the time gets set to 
> 12/18/92 again.
> 
> Now my PC is not y2K compliant but each time I reboot I manually enter the
> 
> BIOS to set the PC date to 2000.
> 
> Is there a way to adjust the script that runs at startup to set the date?
> 
> Thanks for any help that may be offered.
> 
> Bob Davidson
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