On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 4:57 PM, erik quanstrom<quans...@quanstro.net> wrote: >> > > The script runs at boot, the echo tells me that much, but the time is >> > > not set, perhaps as if timesync -r is not working. To be specific the >> > > date a few minutes after booting is Sun Jan 2 18:30:36 GMT 2000. >> > >> > i believe timesync is setting the system clock from /dev/rtc, not the >> > other way >> > around. >> >> Yeah, that's what I expect timesync to do, but it's doing something strange >> instead. > > i wouldn't classify doing what the man page says it does > as something "really strange". if you want the converse, > then just execute "date -n >/dev/rtc". > > - erik > >
I'm pretty sure he's *trying* to get the time from /dev/rtc, not trying to set it. John -- "I've tried programming Ruby on Rails, following TechCrunch in my RSS reader, and drinking absinthe. It doesn't work. I'm going back to C, Hunter S. Thompson, and cheap whiskey." -- Ted Dziuba
