On 12 Apr 1997, Rob Browning wrote: > > I assumed that the hardware clock was always written to reflect the > current system time on shutdown. Is that true? The reason I ask is > because we just had the daylight savings switch here, and at least one > of my systems came up after a reboot with the wrong time (it was an > hour off). If the clock is not by default written at shutdown, what's > the best way to make sure that it is, an appropriate rc.d script > perhaps? > Type:
man 8 clock to learn how your hardware clock is read to and written from. You can run it in your shutdown script. I run it from a cron script that synchronizes to a timeserver first, my system clock is 45 sec fast per day. Also, you can can configure your system to use GMT on your hardware clock. See /etc/init.d/boot Perry -- If red tape were nutritious, we could feed the world. Perry Piplani http://perrypip.netservers.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netservers.com
