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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:57:42 -0400
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] timesync -r not working?
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> > > 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