On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> > Yes. But it doesn't update the HARDWARE clock. Axalon was good enough
> > to tell me -- hwclock is the command I was looking for. Doh! :-)
> > John
> Um, it updates the hardware clock on my system. Maybe there is an
> option somewhere that I set on install, but I don't recall doing
> anything odd. How could you use the rdate -s option without it
> updating the hardware clock? That's what the -s switch does.
>
I beg to differ... Quoting from the man page:
-s Set the local system time from the time retrieved from the remote machine.
This, quite naturally, is only effective for root.
Unless I'm totally mistaken (I could be for all I know <G>) this only
sets the SOFTWARE clock. Which is why when you have your off-set
wrong, and have your hardware (bios) clock set CORRECTLY, you can
have a wrong time displayed... :-)
John
