Re: Auto updating the hardware clock on shutdown.

1997-04-21 Thread Daniel J. Mashao
On 12 Apr 1997, Rob Browning wrote: I assumed that the hardware clock was always written to reflect the current system time on shutdown. Is that true? The reason I ask is because we just had the daylight savings switch here, and at least one of my systems came up after a reboot with the

Re: Auto updating the hardware clock on shutdown.

1997-04-13 Thread Paul Serice
I assumed that the hardware clock was always written to reflect the current system time on shutdown. Is that true? The reason I ask is because we just had the daylight savings switch here, and at least one of my systems came up after a reboot with the wrong time (it was an hour off). If

Re: Auto updating the hardware clock on shutdown.

1997-04-13 Thread Perry Piplani
On 12 Apr 1997, Rob Browning wrote: I assumed that the hardware clock was always written to reflect the current system time on shutdown. Is that true? The reason I ask is because we just had the daylight savings switch here, and at least one of my systems came up after a reboot with the

Re: Auto updating the hardware clock on shutdown.

1997-04-13 Thread Rob Browning
Perry Piplani [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: man 8 clock to learn how your hardware clock is read to and written from. You can run it in your shutdown script. I run it from a cron script that synchronizes to a timeserver first, my system clock is 45 sec fast per day. Also, you can can

Re: Auto updating the hardware clock on shutdown.

1997-04-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I assumed that the hardware clock was always written to reflect the current system time on shutdown. Is that true? No, nothing touches the hardware clock until you tell it to (with clock(8)). The reason I ask is because we

Re: Auto updating the hardware clock on shutdown.

1997-04-13 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes: Now what might have happened is that you have your CMOS clock running on GMT. Some BIOSes try to be smart and update the CMOS clock when you boot if they see DST has come into effect since the latest reboot.. You should be able to turn that

Auto updating the hardware clock on shutdown.

1997-04-12 Thread Rob Browning
I assumed that the hardware clock was always written to reflect the current system time on shutdown. Is that true? The reason I ask is because we just had the daylight savings switch here, and at least one of my systems came up after a reboot with the wrong time (it was an hour off). If the