After installing RedHat Linux/Alpha there is a choice for
using /sbin/clock, viz.
- with the single option -u, indicating that the CMOS clock is
running in UTC (or GMT)
- with the single option -A, indicating that it is in Alpha
ARC console time (probably local time, I guess)
Doing things with the CMOS clock, the TZ environment
variable (the goverment recently changed DST here), and with
date/clock reading/writing, I have now the following:
I can set the CMOS clock with 'clock -w' in both ARC console
time (-A) and in UTC (-u). I can read it back with the same
option, and it shows exactly what I gave in: the clock
doesn't run. I have blown a Milo in my Flash RAM, therefore I
cannot use the ARC console to change/lookup the time.
Also I can read it back with the other option, and then I get
the 1970-01-01 time (or thereabouts). This oddity is acceptable
to me, of course.
Question: How should it work? Should the CMOS clock run at the
point where I expect it, that is after setting its time with
sbin/clock -w? Should I do extra things? Milo?
Met vriendelijke groeten, Wim van Dorst
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