Re: tlug: Strange clock problem finally solved!

[Christopher Wiles <wileyc@example.com>]

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tlug note from Christopher Wiles <wileyc@example.com>
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On Tue, 13 May 1997, Dennis McMurchy wrote:

>   Well, sure enough, a little experimentation revealed that setting the
> time with the 'date' command does NOT affect the hardware clock at all.
> Once I reset the time in the bios setup routine, I found that this 
> strange problem of losing greater and greater amounts of time has 
> disappeared.

You can set the CMOS clock from Linux with /sbin/clock ...

--	Chris (wileyc@example.com)

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