On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 03:11:24AM -0400, Robert Stia wrote:
> Hello Sluggers
>
> Why is it so complicated? All I want to do is set the time on my computer
> accurately. Have ntp installed. Also installed 2.5 megs of a gazillion
> infos, chrons, etc, & config files to access radio station and god knows what
> else. Still don't know what it takes to access an ntp server and download the
> time to my sysclock.
>
> Can somebody tell me a simple way to do a simple thing?
As mentioned previously, if you just want to set the date in the OS, the
date command should do it. But I assume you want the time consistently
correct, and you want your CMOS time to match your OS time. To do that,
you find a time server (I'll use NKS's as an example), and issue:
ntpdate 216.139.201.6
(assuming your internet connection is up).
This sets the OS's time. To sync the CMOS with that, issue:
hwclock --systohc
You can set this up as a cron job, if you have a consistent internet
connection (like DSL).
HTH,
Paul
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