From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 18 21:44:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BAF437B401 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 21:44:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0327F43FCB for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 21:44:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 45E02526BB; Sat, 19 Jul 2003 14:14:21 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 14:14:21 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Free BSD Questions list Message-ID: <20030719044421.GH11810@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20030714231604.GA27924@teddy.fas.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="4C6bbPZ6c/S1npyF" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030714231604.GA27924@teddy.fas.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Subject: Re: Seting the hardware clock X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 04:44:52 -0000 --4C6bbPZ6c/S1npyF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 14 July 2003 at 19:16:04 -0400, stan wrote: > ;m struggling with getting the hardware clock (BIOS clock) equal to the > kernels time. > > On my Linux boxes a utility called hwclock is run on the way down to > synchronize the 2. > > The problem I'm running into is that if the time on the system gets to far > out of date for ntpd to bring it into synch, then I can update the kernels > clock with ntpdate. But when I reboot the old incorrect time comes back. I think you have your answer from others, but one thing wasn't made very clear: When you set a FreeBSD (or any other BSD) clock, you automatically set the CMOS clock as well. This is why there is not hwclock(8) program. I can't understand why Linux requires these separate steps. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers --4C6bbPZ6c/S1npyF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/GMylIubykFB6QiMRAqGGAJ9Im7pwCYCXysXBP+9jVrxSuSvKOACeJIvn gpmSALnLkLKED25iP27IFZg= =RBUw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --4C6bbPZ6c/S1npyF--