[plug] Setting the clock

[Leon Brooks]

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?

Suck it and see. (-:

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