From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] timesync -r not working?
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:57:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bda76e9c1c6978632af4b365e8778ac4@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090626232256.0110babe.eekee57@fastmail.fm>
> > > The script runs at boot, the echo tells me that much, but the time is not set, perhaps as if timesync -r is not working. To be specific the date a few minutes after booting is Sun Jan 2 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". if you want the converse,
then just execute "date -n >/dev/rtc".
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-26 23:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-26 18:45 Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-06-26 19:48 ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-26 22:22 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-06-26 23:57 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2009-06-27 0:39 ` John Floren
2009-06-27 7:46 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-06-27 8:36 ` Federico G. Benavento
2009-06-27 18:02 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-06-28 0:05 ` Federico G. Benavento
2009-06-28 11:43 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-06-28 0:17 ` cinap_lenrek
2009-06-28 11:43 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-06-29 9:31 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2009-06-29 14:27 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-06-29 14:38 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-07 9:20 ` Steve Kostecke
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