Actually, I seem to recall that hwclock doesn't function properly on powerpc. I found the following article pretty useful:
http://lppcfom.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/1042.html Beware... if you follow these instructions, your modifications will be obliterated whenever hwclock gets upgraded through apt-get dist-upgrade. Hope this helps, -jennifer On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 12:41:44AM +0100, Mark Baumann wrote: > > Hallo! > > I have a Proplem to set my hwclock via ntpdate, it's not possible to set > > it with "hwclock --set --date "....time and date". > > Any suggestions how to love this? It's not nice to live in the year > > 1938;-) > > I don't know what the right way is, but I've been using date to set the > date and then the --systohc option on hwclock. > >
