Re: time problems in 1.3.77

Andrew C. Esh (andrewes@cnt.com)
Tue, 02 Apr 1996 09:23:27 -0600


Theofilu Andreas wrote:
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> In article <Pine.LNX.3.91.960401112805.281C-100000@gytha.demon.co.uk>,
> Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <bpaj@gytha.demon.co.uk> writes:
> >On Mon, 1 Apr 1996, Ulrich Windl wrote:
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> >> One problem seems to be that the warp_clock() depends on a _local_
> >> flag in sys_settimeofday(). If you have a continuously running
> >> system, you will have to "re-warp" the clock at beginning/end of DST.
> >
> >Did you do a clock -w to write the system time (in Linux), to the CMOS
> >clock ?
> >
> On my system the command 'clock' is an OpenWindows XView utility that
> displays the current time in a window or icon.

We're talking about "/sbin/clock -w", a.k.a. clock(8), which writes the system
clock to the CMOS clock, among other things.

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