My Clock Is Confused

[gena-j at ntlworld.com]

Hi

Or you could simply install a package that gets the time from a ntp
server such as chrony or ntp.  There are plenty of open access servers
around the world.

Gena

>Yeah, the syntax of date is pretty weird.
>
>In a nutshell, you want to pass 8 digits to the date command
>Digits 1 and 2 specify the month (I.E. 10 for October).
>
>Digits 3 and 4 specify the day (I.E. 06 for the 6th day of the month).
>
>Digits 5 and 6 specify the hour (I.E. 14 for 2 P.M.) (remember that
>you're dealing with a 24 hour clock here). It's possible to specify
>the hour in 12 hour format with an A or P at the end of the number
>string, but I've always used 24 hour format for this, so haven't tried
>the A or P myself.
>
>The final 7 and 8 digits specify the minute (I.E. 40 for the 40th
>minute).
>
>So, for example, if you wanted to set your clock to October 06th,
>14:40, you would do as root
>"date 10061440"
>and that should do it, preserving whatever time zone you've got set at
>the time. What I mean by that, is that only the hour/minute will
>change, but your time zone won't.
>
>Wonder why they didn't implement the date and time changes separately
>in unix, would have sure made things less confusing for newbies to
>learn.
>
>Hth.
>
>Greg
>
>P.S., once you've got this set, you won't need to worry about it,
>assuming your cmos battery has charge of course to keep the clock
>going when your machine is off.
>
>On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 01:38:50PM -0400, Rejean Proulx wrote:
>> OK, I've done that and it was correct.  Now I have to reset my clock.  I ran
>> base-config, just the first part of it and told it that my clock is not UTC.
>> Now I am 4 hours behind.  If I tell it my hardware clock is UTC then it puts
>> me 4 hours ahead.  How to I reset the clock to the right time and run a
>> program to keep it that way?  I tried the date command and the parameters
>> are strange.  I haven't been able to get it right yet.
>> 
>>  Rejean Proulx
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>> MSN is: rejp at rogers.com
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>> 
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