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From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: ntpdate & cmos wall clock
Date: 2 Aug 1994 12:24:14 +0200
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jacs@gnome.co.uk (Dr Chris Stenton ) writes:
>I have setup my FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 system to use wall_cmos_clock. If I
>use ntpdate to correct the time I find that the correction is olny kept
>until I reboot. It thus appears that the CMOS clock is not being
>updated but some offset within the kernel is. How do I update the CMOS
>clock?
There's currently no way to access the CMOS (other than doing the I/O
directly). A /dev/rtc has been proposed some day, but nobody took over
to implement it. Furthermore, there are several implications with
setting the time, which have not been discussed to an end.
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cheers, J"org work: joerg_wunsch@tcd-dresden.de
private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de
Steinbach's Guideline for Systems Programming:
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