Re: Setting the date and time
Richard Adams (pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl)
Sat, 9 Oct 1999 14:19:40 +0000
On Sat, 09 Oct 1999, Buddy Brannan wrote:
>Which brings up another question. For such accurate and recise machines,
>computers are lousy clocks. At least, PC's are. So is there some way that
>one can set the computer's clock (and date, presumably) automagically from
>the Net, presumably from something with the correct time?
rdate -s <your_isp's_time_server>
clock
I have that in a rc script which gets executed at boottime and once a
day via cron.
>Thanks.
>
>Buddy
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Regards Richard
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