On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 09:03:44 -0500, Robert Storey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:20:35 +0000 > Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 22 Nov 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I've been reading man pages of hwclock, xclock, adjtime, and so on, > > > but cannot see how to adjust the time shown on teh icewm clock, > > > which is steadfastly 56 minutes ahead of the hwclock (which is set > > > reasonably correct). Which utility controls this? > > These four steps should do everything: > > 1) tzconfig or tzsetup (set time zone) > 2) date MMDDHHmmCCYY (change the date & time) > 3) hwclock --localtime (set hardware clock to localtime) > 4) hwclock --systohc (set system time to hardware clock) > > Of course, restart icewm after you've done all that. >
And if you have a (semi)permanent network connection, ntpdate can keep your clock updtated with good degree of precision. Andrea P.S. ntpdate try to update the clock at boot time, so if the network is unavailable, ntpdate will wait until a time-out, and sometimes this is not desiderable... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
