From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 19 20:51:55 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 DD72637B405; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 20:51:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BCCEBD02; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 20:51:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA21800; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 20:51:47 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g0K4rwe12207; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 20:53:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: How to change a FreeBSD clock time References: <002501c1a0d2$6682a9a0$0301a8c0@wintellect.com> <20020119102526.GA5105@raggedclown.net> <20020120110618.U60575@wantadilla.lemis.com> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 19 Jan 2002 20:53:57 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20020120110618.U60575@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-ID: Lines: 18 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 Greg Lehey writes: > date(1). Why would you ever want to change the processor time and not > the CMOS time? The CMOS clock is only a backup for the processor > clock. Maybe because the OS I use 90% of the time maintains an offset between the CMOS clock and the OS clock using a sophisticated clock speed estimation algorithm which is not sophisticated enough to handle big step changes in the CMOS clock done by other OSes between boots without being told about it? That's not my current situation as I dropped Linux cold Turkey and the clock speed program isn't supported for FreeBSD. I'm OK with the "date" method, but I"m not happy that the "date" man page doesn't say what the command does better than it does. (It says "date will set the date and time" and doesn't mention CMOS/MB or OS clocks.) I've added it to my list of PRs to be written. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message