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Re: Setting system time/date
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Raymond Popowich)
Wed Oct 28 16:34:51 1998
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 16:33:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Raymond Popowich <popowich@acsu.buffalo.edu>
To: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
cc: jivany@nbnet.nb.ca, RedHat Mailing List <redhat-list@redhat.com>
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>>
>> Make a cron job that runs rdate -s clock.psu.edu
>> or use a time server closer to you. It will set you time
>> to within a second or so of the time server.
after that, you will want to run the 'setclock' command so that it
changes the time in your bios as well as in Linix. (so you still
have the correct time after a reboot/crash)
>> --
>>
>> Jan Carlson
>> janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
>> Mailed with Netscape 4.5 on Red Hat Linux 5.1
>>
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Raymond Popowich
popowich@acsu.buffalo.edu
http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~popowich/
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