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From: jacs@gnome.co.uk (Dr Chris Stenton )
Subject: ntpdate & cmos wall clock
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Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 09:54:36 GMT
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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?

Chris
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