[TriLUG] DATE problems

[Mike McLean]

what is the hardware clock set to?
$ /sbin/hwclock
Mon 17 Dec 2001 01:24:25 PM EST  0.026395 seconds
$ date
Mon Dec 17 13:21:21 EST 2001

(you can see the slight drift in my system)


"Vestal, Roy L." wrote:
> 
> No I'm not talking about my personal life ;)
> 
> I have a question on the date program. Everyday, I login and have to run
> date -s hh:mm:ss am/pm to set the clock. I have run this as root via su when
> logged in as me, as well as log in as root, but everyday I have to do this.
> Any one know what to look for, or am I doing this wrong?
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