[plug] Setting the clock

[Oliver White]

Leon Brooks wrote:

> Oliver White wrote:
> > I'm trying to set the system clock using NTP. It's pointed at
> > time.iinet.net.au. However, my clock is exactly 8 hours fast. Can
> > someone  offer suggestions as to what might be wrong?
>
> You're getting UTC time and are in the zone 8 hours ahead of it? Write
> it into your RTC using /sbin/hwclock --utc --systohc and then get it
> back using /sbin/hwclock --hctosys (no --utc). You might have more joy
> running your system in RTC-in-UTC mode, depending on your distro and how
> it achieves this.

You mean run those two commands? With any other arguments?

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Oliver White