From: Proinnsias Breathnach (proinnsias at domain clubi.ie)
Date: Thu 29 Apr 1999 - 19:24:32 IST
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From: Niall O Broin <nobroin at domain sced.esoc.esa.de>
>the time/date on the RTC. The BIOS setup screen doesn't offer any means of
>doing this, but it can be done by booting from a DOS floppy and using the
>date command. However, I won't always have that DOS floppy handy, so I'm
>wondering if there is any way of changing the RTC date/time from Linux ?
>
Try 'man hwclock', I forget the parameters, but it does the job nicely,
although the clock might get a bit screwed up if the (CMOS) battery is dead.
Proinnsias
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