From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 19 2:25:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2403D37B400 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 02:25:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=tanya.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16Rsgh-0006rU-00; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 10:25:27 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (tanya.raggedclown.intra, from userid 500) id 87BF31186; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 11:25:26 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 11:25:26 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: Philip Pereira Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to change a FreeBSD clock time Message-ID: <20020119102526.GA5105@raggedclown.net> References: <002501c1a0d2$6682a9a0$0301a8c0@wintellect.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <002501c1a0d2$6682a9a0$0301a8c0@wintellect.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 10:15:07AM -0000, Philip Pereira wrote: > Hey fellow FreeBSD-ers... > > Anyone know how to change the time on a FreeBSD box? Can't find a man page to support it. Currently it's 1 hour behind > > In Linux it's a command called 'hwclock' - but this doesn't appear to be so on my FreeBSD box. Please help, it's driving me insane!!!! > It's called "date", as it is on Linux (and on every Unix in the known universe :) "hwclock" is more to do with reconciling Linux's kernel idea of the date/time and the hardwares. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message