Re: Linux 2.0 & DST: RTC needs update!

Mr. James W. Laferriere Network Engineer (babydr@nwrain.net)
Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:38:10 -0800 (PST)


Hello Jeffrey,

On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, J. S. Connell wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Harald Koenig wrote:
> > what about changing settimeofday() to set the RTC too ?
>
> Why not just put clock -w in your shutdown scripts?

Well OK, But John just tripped over the pull the plug ????

I'd suggest the above as well as a cron of 'clock -w' about
every hour or so, Depending on just how accurate your RTC
seem to be.
Hth, JimL
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