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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA6700 ; Tue, 12 Jan 93 08:08:22 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!news.univie.ac.at!hp4at!mcsun!uknet!axion!rtf.bt.co.uk!duplain From: duplain@rtf.bt.co.uk (Andy Duplain) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: setting the system date Message-ID: <1993Jan14.092506.26375@rtf.bt.co.uk> Date: 14 Jan 93 09:25:06 GMT References: <tch.726903290@cygnus.cis.ksu.edu.cis.ksu.edu> Organization: BT Customer Systems, Brighton, UK Lines: 22 In article <tch.726903290@cygnus.cis.ksu.edu.cis.ksu.edu> tch@cis.ksu.edu (Thomas C Hampton ) writes: >Howdy There again! > >I cannot seem to set the system date successfully. I can run date >without any problem, but when I shutdown -r now. Upon reboot the date >comes back wrong! The date actually comes back to what it was before >I changed it. I have done the following: > >rm /etc/localtime; >ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Central localtime >date 9301122231.00 > >... > >Date then reports the set time and the syslog shows the entry, but >after shutdown and reboot the date comes back as what it was before I >did the date set. That's because upon reboot 386BSD reads the time from the CMOS clock. -- Andy Duplain, BT Customer Systems, Brighton, UK. duplain@rtf.bt.co.uk #define DISCLAIMER My views and opinions are my own, and not my company's