My Clock Is Confused

[Rejean Proulx]

Thanks, now the help instructions make sense.  I guess if I'd read them with
an open mind I'd have figured it out but it is too strange to be believable.
I'm going to find a program to keep the time current so I don't have to
worry about this.  I feel better that it works.  Having the wrong time can
be a little dangerous.  It can do strange things to files.

 Rejean Proulx
Visit my family at http://interfree.ca
MSN is: rejp at rogers.com
Ham License VA3REJ

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 3:48 PM
Subject: Re: My Clock Is Confused


> 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 speci'1H9he 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
> > Visit my family at http://interfree.ca
> > MSN is: rejp at rogers.com
> > Ham License VA3REJ
> >
>
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