[ale] cd drives, or going nutz the Linux way!

[cfowler]

One thing I do is use ntpdate to sync the time then use hwclock to write
it to /dev/rtc.



On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 08:53, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 February 2003 01:28 pm, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
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> > On Thursday 27 February 2003 07:03 am, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > > man hwclock
> >
> > Thank you, thank you, thank you!
> >
> > None of the reference books I have handy even lists this function.
> > And the name is hardly intuitive. :)
> 
> Here's another hint you might not find in books: man apropos
> 
> For instance:
> 
> [1012] hirsch>apropos clock
> QTime [qtime]        (3qt)  - Clock time functions
> adjtimex             (2)  - tune kernel clock
> alarm                (2)  - set an alarm clock for delivery of a signal
> clock                (3)  - Determine processor time
> clock                (n)  - Obtain and manipulate time
> clockdiff            (8)  - measure clock difference between hosts
> hwclock              (8)  - query and set the hardware clock (RTC)
> oclock               (1x)  - round X clock
> setclock             (8)  - sets the hardware clock from the system clock
> t3d                  (1)  - clock using flying balls to display the time
> xclock               (1x)  - analog / digital clock for X
> [1013] hirsch>
> 
> 
> Michael
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