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Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:46:58 +0100
From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
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Subject: Re: odd problem, system clock stops while power-down
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On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:17:39 -0700 (PDT), Richard Smith <geseeker@yahoo.com> wrote:
> How do i get around this so i wouldn't have to set the clock every
> time i boot into freebsd? and by the way, does freebsd use the
> CMOS clock?

An idea would to use NTP to get the exact time from your
local atomic time dealer at system startup. :-)

See ntpd and ntpdate for further information.




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