WILLIAM M BURNS writes:
-> How does the CMOS clock affect the running system?  There must be 
-> some program that reads to CMOS clock and then sets the UNIX clock to 
-> the same value.    

The kernel clock is set from the CMOS clock at boot time through the
clock program. Usually, it is not referred to afterwards.

-> Is there a way to set the CMOS clock to the UNIX clock without bring 
-> down the system?

clock -w will write the current unix time to the CMOS clock.  Make
sure to include the -u flag if your CMOS clock is set to UTC.

-Larry

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