From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 19 14:12:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chen.org.nz (tnt1-191.quicksilver.net.nz [202.89.142.191]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2333D37B419 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 14:12:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by chen.org.nz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0JMEpI01523; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 11:14:51 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 11:14:29 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: Cliff Sarginson , Philip Pereira , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to change a FreeBSD clock time Message-ID: <20020120111429.A1429@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <002501c1a0d2$6682a9a0$0301a8c0@wintellect.com> <20020119102526.GA5105@raggedclown.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from swear@blarg.net on Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 10:56:13AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 10:56:13AM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: [...] > I still haven't seen how to change the CMOS time from FreeBSD, unless > it's buried in all of adjkerntz's words on M$DOS and time zones. Real UNIX systems use `date' to change the CMOS time as well as the displayed time. Only Linux has this weirdball `hwclock' command. If date(1) doesn't work for you, the probably some other problem with your system. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Only the meek get pinched. The bold survive." - Ferris Bueller To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message