From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 8 06:12:58 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 434C016A400 for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 06:12:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nick@nickwithers.com) Received: from mail.nickwithers.com (mail.manrags.com [203.219.206.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97A3C43D45 for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 06:12:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nick@nickwithers.com) Received: from nickwithers.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.nickwithers.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0000B3A413; Mon, 8 May 2006 16:12:46 +1000 (EST) Received: from 150.203.2.85 (SquirrelMail authenticated user nick) by nickwithers.com with HTTP; Mon, 8 May 2006 16:12:47 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <38173.150.203.2.85.1147068767.squirrel@nickwithers.com> In-Reply-To: <8e6875284479b938892d255182f50ac8@prodigy.net> References: <8e6875284479b938892d255182f50ac8@prodigy.net> Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 16:12:47 +1000 (EST) From: "Nick Withers" To: "jekillen" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-nickwithers-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-nickwithers-MailScanner-From: nick@nickwithers.com Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: resetting clock after power outage X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 06:12:58 -0000 On Mon, 8 May, 2006 2:10 pm, jekillen wrote: > Hello; > I have a problem that I can't, so far find and answer to. > How do you reset the system clock after a power outage > has caused it to loose time? Have a gander at date(1), if NTP isn't a goer, as others have suggested. (snip) > I thought maybe the bios had something to do with it > but haven't seen a way to reset the time in the bios > either. > Thanks for assistance in advance; > JK The BIOS setup utility really should have a time / date setting facility too, though! -- Nick Withers email: nick@nickwithers.com Web: http://www.nickwithers.com Mobile: +61 414 397 446