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Date:      Fri, 25 Jan 2002 18:13:09 -0500
From:      Tom Rhodes <darklogik@pittgoth.com>
To:        "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
Subject:   Re: Should common/traditional Unix SA tasks be documented?
Message-ID:  <3C51E685.7090600@pittgoth.com>
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Gary W. Swearingen wrote:

> In a recent -questions thread, a Linux refugee gave up trying to
> determine how to set the clock.  (There are two of them which may be
> set, but I'll leave the issue related to that for a PR.)  It's not
> documented in the Handbook or FAQ, "make -k clock" is no help, and "make
> -k time" gives 840 words in 80 lines that few will find "date" in.
> 
> I'm wondering whether such things should be documented in the Handbook.
> Several posters seemed to think that he was an idiot for not knowing
> that "date" sets the clock, either because it's traditional Unix or it's
> in Unix books or man pages.
> 
> I seemed to me that an OS Handbook should be like the User's Manuals
> which (used to?) come with OSes and other software.  The man pages are
> more like the Reference Manual, and the Handbook is more like the User
> Manual which should even have things like "how to set the clock" or even
> "how to delete a file".  (Even if brief as referring to a man page.)
> Maybe this should be put in a companion book.  Or maybe nobody wants to
> write all this info and it's best to refer to a commercial book or a
> few, which ever are most BSD-centric.  But even then there probably
> ought to be a section which handles things which are not standard Unix
> (BSD or SysV?) or even, someone suggested, a "surprises for Linux users"
> section.
> 
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Send it over to Mr FAQ...  "How do I set the time on my FreeBSD System" 
or do we have that already?


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