From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 19 10:54: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CC5537B400 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 10:54:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B29B3BD81; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 10:54:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA17580; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 10:54:00 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g0JIuDi10648; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 10:56:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: Philip Pereira , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to change a FreeBSD clock time References: <002501c1a0d2$6682a9a0$0301a8c0@wintellect.com> <20020119102526.GA5105@raggedclown.net> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 19 Jan 2002 10:56:13 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20020119102526.GA5105@raggedclown.net> Message-ID: Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cliff Sarginson writes: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 10:15:07AM -0000, Philip Pereira wrote: > > Hey fellow FreeBSD-ers... > > > > Anyone know how to change the time on a FreeBSD box? Can't find a man page to support it. Currently it's 1 hour behind > > > > In Linux it's a command called 'hwclock' - but this doesn't appear to be so on my FreeBSD box. Please help, it's driving me insane!!!! > > > It's called "date", as it is on Linux (and on every Unix in the known > universe :) > > "hwclock" is more to do with reconciling Linux's kernel idea of the > date/time and the hardwares. Except that "hwclock" (AKA "clock") can set both CMOS and OS clocks and he, like I, probably had never used "date" to set time before coming to FreeBSD. And even had he done "apropos clock" or "apropos time", he would not have seen "date" listed. The Handbook has only an NTP section. I still haven't seen how to change the CMOS time from FreeBSD, unless it's buried in all of adjkerntz's words on M$DOS and time zones. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message