Maybe I'm confused about the concept of a "software" clock. Since I'm
coming from a background of VMS and Windows, the machines I've used
only have one clock. I understand using offsets, but let's assume I
have my hardware clock set to local time, rather than GMT, set my TZ
variable correctly, etc. Then, in that case (which oddly enough is
mine), does rdate -s set the hardware clock, or is there some magic
clock saved somewhere else that it is updating? I assume it is
updating the actual BIOS clock, since I have no offset set personally.
WHEW! OTOH, I'll now have to look at the hwclock command and see if I
need to change my nightly clock-reset cron job. :-)
On 12 Mar, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> 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
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