On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 09:00 -0600, Bill Gradwohl wrote: > Ludwig Goon wrote: > > > There was a trick with redhat 9 to set the clock such that it wouldn't > > interfere with > > windows' clock when I dual booted. Does anyone know of the command ? > > > > > > -lg > > > If you just use the date command, that does not touch the hardware > clock. Its the hardware clock that provides date & time at boot up. > > -- > Bill Gradwohl > bill@xxxxxxx > http://www.ycc.com > spamSTOMPER Protected email > hwclock is the utility to set the hardware clock from the system (software) clock. Both windows and Linux read the H/W clock at boot up and if you set up a NTP server at Fedora installation it will go out and reset your software clock (within limits) at boot up. Fedora also saves your software clock to the H/W clock at shutdown. You would have to edit /etc/init.d/halt to stop the synchronization. Bob...
