Re: Date Problems...
on 7/18/01 11:34 AM, Leonard Leblanc at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey All, This is probably going to be an easy question for most of you, but I can't seem to get a grasp on what the problem is... # hwclock Tue Jul 17 22:38:11 2001 -0.044470 seconds # hwclock --localtime Wed Jul 18 03:37:34 2001 -0.558978 seconds # uname -a Sat Nov 18 18:47:15 EST 2000 This one completely has me baffled and I can't seem to find any information on it. Any help is greatly appreciated. This may be a problem due to timezone settings - but 'm quite SURE that you get it wrong - use ntpdate
RE: Date Problems...
The #uname -a command also gives you the version and date of compilation (installation ?) eg one our old machines gives Linux router1 2.0.36 #1 Thu Sep 2 09:28:09 EST 1999 i686 unknown one of the newer gives Linux router2 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown I often use the command 'hwclock --systohc' to set the clock to the system time after a date command. Ian -Original Message- From: Ari Pollak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 1:53 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Date Problems... First of all, I don't think that's the real 'uname -a' output. uname -a has more than just the date. Second of all, the hardware clock and the system (Linux) clock are different. if you type the command 'date', you'll probably get the same output as uname. To transfer the hardware clock to the system clock, use the command 'hwclock --hctosys'. On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 10:34:55PM -0500, Leonard Leblanc wrote: Hey All, This is probably going to be an easy question for most of you, but I can't seem to get a grasp on what the problem is... # hwclock Tue Jul 17 22:38:11 2001 -0.044470 seconds # hwclock --localtime Wed Jul 18 03:37:34 2001 -0.558978 seconds # uname -a Sat Nov 18 18:47:15 EST 2000 This one completely has me baffled and I can't seem to find any information on it. Any help is greatly appreciated. -- ___ ___ / _ | / _ \ Ari Pollak - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.aripollak.com / __ |/ ___/ /_/ |_/_/ A man needs a good memory after he has lied. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Date Problems...
First of all, I don't think that's the real 'uname -a' output. uname -a has more than just the date. Second of all, the hardware clock and the system (Linux) clock are different. if you type the command 'date', you'll probably get the same output as uname. To transfer the hardware clock to the system clock, use the command 'hwclock --hctosys'. On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 10:34:55PM -0500, Leonard Leblanc wrote: Hey All, This is probably going to be an easy question for most of you, but I can't seem to get a grasp on what the problem is... # hwclock Tue Jul 17 22:38:11 2001 -0.044470 seconds # hwclock --localtime Wed Jul 18 03:37:34 2001 -0.558978 seconds # uname -a Sat Nov 18 18:47:15 EST 2000 This one completely has me baffled and I can't seem to find any information on it. Any help is greatly appreciated. -- ___ ___ / _ | / _ \ Ari Pollak - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.aripollak.com / __ |/ ___/ /_/ |_/_/ A man needs a good memory after he has lied.
Re: Date Problems and more
First off thanks to everyone who replied to my first problem. I was actually trying to just change the hour and nothing else using the 'date' command. Duh! Ok my brother is wanting to install Debian on his home machine, after I've been telling him how great the support is from you guys and how cool and efficient the Linux OS is. He has a old i386 with a 1mg+ HD that his BIOS and Windows doesn't see all of. Well we ran a floppy I prepared from my machine and we quickly had Debian up and running. I tried to just use the part of the drive that Windows doesn't see and everything seemed Ok from the Linux side with fdisk. However from the BIOS and Windows the Partition Table was messed up in such a way as to make Windows unbootable. I had to run a rescue disk and do a fdisk /mbr to get it back to normal. I've been following this list for a while and someone somewhere mentioned that you could write the root partition to the lower part of the HD and make it work OK. If so can you do this without screwing up his existing Windows partition? Also his computer has a Sony cdrom (CDU-33A) which is supported by the kernal already. But the installation program wouldn't recognize it. I've got the hamm dist. Any one have any ideas? I don't think he had any problems with the cdrom from Windows although I didn't check it out while I was there. TIA Duane BTW I converted from Slack to Debian after I tried to get support from them and while doing a search for some file I thought was broken ran accross this mailing list and saw a lot of my questions answered just by reading the archives. Just one thing though. is there a way to search just the mailing list archives for answers to specific problems? That would sure be a BIG timesaver for a lot of people.
Re: Date Problems
Subject: Date Problems Date: Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 01:10:08AM -0500 In reply to:D Richards Quoting D Richards([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hello I've just reinstalled debian hamm on my new 2.5 gig HD with no problems. Except I can't seem to understand the correct syntax for setting my system date and time using 'date'. Can anyone give me an example with an explanation TIA Duane Richards man date, man clock, man hwclock. Clock-HOWTO -- Real Programmers don't write in PL/I. PL/I is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN. ___ Wayne T. Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Date Problems
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 01:10:08AM -0500, D Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just reinstalled debian hamm on my new 2.5 gig HD with no problems. Except I can't seem to understand the correct syntax for setting my system date and time using 'date'. Can anyone give me an example with an explanation TIA Duane Richards The GNU date command is pretty smart. You can use most common date formats with the -s option. For example, date -s 'Mar 1 8:55am 1999' is the same as date -s '3/1/1999 8:55:00'. -- /---\ | Eric Gillespie, Jr.| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |*| | Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and| | depriving him of his life there exists only a difference | | of degree. | | --Emperor Paul Muad'dib (Frank Herbert's Dune Messiah) | \---/
Re: Date Problems
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 01:10:08AM -0500, D Richards wrote: Hello I've just reinstalled debian hamm on my new 2.5 gig HD with no problems. Except I can't seem to understand the correct syntax for setting my system date and time using 'date'. Can anyone give me an example with an explanation TIA Duane Richards -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null This works for me: date -s Sun Feb 28 15:38:13 CST 1999 You were probably missing the quotes. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
