From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 19 14: 3:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-1.visp.telinco.net (smtp-1.visp.telinco.net [212.1.130.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E327C37B405 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 14:03:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.1.152.122] (helo=me01) by smtp-1.visp.telinco.net with smtp (Exim 3.32 #1) id 16S3TF-0004AT-00; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 21:56:17 +0000 Message-ID: <002a01c1a135$b1e99b20$0301a8c0@wintellect.com> From: "Philip Pereira" To: "Cliff Sarginson" , "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: References: <002501c1a0d2$6682a9a0$0301a8c0@wintellect.com><20020119102526.GA5105@raggedclown.net> Subject: Re: How to change a FreeBSD clock time Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 22:07:27 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cliff, Thank you for understanding my dilemma! It's tough trying to write to a questions forum of "experts" when their replies are usually along the lines of... "read the freaking man page..." (as I've had said before) I always assumed that forums were to help people to gain an understanding and answers to problems - not make them feel worse because they don't fully understand the man page or the OS - or that they have to use the 'DATE' command to set the time - like that command really makes sense? I want to be a part of the FreeBSD community - but I need time to get there while I learn bits at a time. Once again, I thank you very much! Phil. > Except that "hwclock" (AKA "clock") can set both CMOS and OS clocks and > he, like I, probably had never used "date" to set time before coming to > FreeBSD. And even had he done "apropos clock" or "apropos time", he > would not have seen "date" listed. The Handbook has only an NTP section. > > I still haven't seen how to change the CMOS time from FreeBSD, unless > it's buried in all of adjkerntz's words on M$DOS and time zones. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message