date

[Jason]

I meant the system time automatically updating for daylight savings should 
happen if you have your time zone set properly, and your hardware clock set 
for GMT.


> From the stuff I've read before on the subject, I thought the date command
> wouldn't update the hardware clock but the clock command would; hence the
> script I posted up here several days ago.  Basically, I did a netdate deal
> to pull the time from a time server and then used the clock command to
> update it if the netdate command was successful. I generally use the date
> command in a alias with the %mm%yy%dd construct to give me a quick
> date/time command I can run from the keyboard.
> AFAIK time will update automatically if you store it in the hardware clock
> in
> GMT, but not in local time.
> > Weird.  On both my slackware and debian systems the time updated
> > automatically.
>