On 11/01/2011 07:55 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > Pádraig Brady wrote: >> commit a496b7ce575a12d952bb77eb9766719b4bd4ae6e >> Author: Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> >> Date: Tue Nov 1 17:29:53 2011 +0000 >> >> doc: date: mention that the hardware clock might not be set >> >> * doc/coreutils.texi (Setting the time): Reorganize slightly >> and mention that the hardware clock might need to be explicitly >> updated by the user as is the case on Fedora 16 currently. > > Thanks. The change looks fine. > I'll nit-pick the log a little, though ;-) > > Isn't it KDE-specific?
No. As of Fedora 16, setting the date with `date` does not persist across reboot. One has to call hwclock explicitly, as it's no longer called at shutdown. That's a debatable change, but I wanted to at least distinguish the hardware clock in the docs as there are other systems that behave like this (as mentioned in the bug comments). > > updated by the user as is currently the case with Fedora 16's KDE. > >> See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=749516 > > How about the shorter equivalent? (dropping the "s" in https > as well as /sh.*id=/): > > See http://bugzilla.redhat.com/749516 I'll merge that. > To help remember, I'll be using the patch below. Nice! thanks for the review, Pádraig.
