On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 12:29 AM, paul g <pj.world at hotmail.com> wrote: > Helps alot! > > paul at desk/paul-Lenovo ~ $ sudo hwclock > Sat 03 Jan 2015 12:22:06 AM CST -0.078578 seconds > paul at desk/paul-Lenovo ~ $ > > paul at desk/paul-Lenovo ~ $ sudo hwclock > Sat 03 Jan 2015 12:23:02 AM CST -0.051555 seconds > > paul at desk/paul-Lenovo ~ $ sudo hwclock --systohc > paul at desk/paul-Lenovo ~ $ > > obviously ^ fails with the --systohc extension. > What do you mean it obviously fails? I see no error. > <--why? <--every time I go into bios and change the time via biox I get an > incorrect time on desktop. I am going to be looking into this; i'm about 7 > hours off by the way. I thank you for your time and your help. > > Yeah, your hwclock is set to UTC and you live in a timezone 7 hours off from UTC. That's to be expected. > [image: Emoji] - paul g > > > ------------------------------ > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 23:42:31 -0600 > From: kelly.black at penguinpackets.com > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Bios clock and Linux UTC clock refuse to set at > the same time. > > Paul, > To set the system clock to the hardware clock > hwclock --hctosys > Other way around: > hwclock --systohc > You should be able to check the hardware clock by issuing: > hwclock > That will give you an idea of how far off the hardware clock is. If it is > skewed far enough, you will probably want to go in to the bios on a reboot > and update it. If it does not stick past power outages, you might want to > replace the cmos battery on the motherboard. > Hope that helps. > > > Fri Jan 02 2015 10:11:42 PM CST from "paul g" <pj.world at hotmail.com> Subject: > Re: [tclug-list] Bios clock and Linux UTC clock refuse to set at the same > time. > The question is 'how can I set the hardware clock to coorolate with > the Linux clock'. > > My apologies. > > Happy New year and thank you with the updatedb stuff' meant alot. > > paul g > > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - > Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- Jeff Chapin President, CedarLug, retired President, UNIPC, "I'll get around to it" President, UNI Scuba Club Senator, NISG, retired -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20150103/1503f2a1/attachment.html>