From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:02:35 +0100 From: Ethan Grammatikidis To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-Id: <20090627190235.781c2441.eekee57@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <32d987d50906270136v77203bb7o9cb0244aeef09b7e@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090626232256.0110babe.eekee57@fastmail.fm> <7d3530220906261739g2ea172dv90602338965a8291@mail.gmail.com> <20090627084653.70b02cfb.eekee57@fastmail.fm> <32d987d50906270136v77203bb7o9cb0244aeef09b7e@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] timesync -r not working? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0fc169c4-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 05:36:55 -0300 "Federico G. Benavento" wrote: > timezones? I've never heard of a timezone that could make a 9 year difference. Maybe o= n Pluto. ;) >=20 > On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 4:46 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis= wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:39:12 -0700 > > John Floren wrote: > > > >> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 4:57 PM, erik quanstrom= wrote: > >> >> > > The script runs at boot, the echo tells me that much, but the t= ime is not set, perhaps as if timesync -r is not working. To be specific th= e date a few minutes after booting is Sun Jan =A02 18:30:36 GMT 2000. > >> >> > > >> >> > i believe timesync is setting the system clock from /dev/rtc, not= the other way > >> >> > around. > >> >> > >> >> Yeah, that's what I expect timesync to do, but it's doing something= strange instead. > >> > > >> > i wouldn't classify doing what the man page says it does > >> > as something "really strange". =A0if you want the converse, > >> > then just execute "date -n >/dev/rtc". > >> > > >> > - erik > >> > > >> > > >> > >> I'm pretty sure he's *trying* to get the time from /dev/rtc, not > >> trying to set it. > >> > > > > You'd be right. > > > > I've found I don't seem to need timesync, the system time & /dev/rtc al= ike seem to stay in sync with the host without it, but I'm still curious wh= y timesync -r should mess up the system time so badly. > > > > Perhaps /dev/rtc and the system time are linked on some architectures, = so that setting one sets the other and so timesync -r gets in a mess. Just = a guess. > > > > -- > > Ethan Grammatikidis > > The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. -- Chaucer > > > > >=20 >=20 >=20 > --=20 > Federico G. Benavento >=20 --=20 Ethan Grammatikidis The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. -- Chaucer