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SETCLOCK

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
FILES
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR

NAME

setclock ? sets the hardware clock from the system clock

SYNOPSIS

setclock

DESCRIPTION

setclock sets the hardware clock on the current system to the current time stored in the system clock. /etc/sysconfig/clock is read to discover the format the time should be converted to before storage. This is the same method used by the standard Red Hat startup scripts and timeconfig(8).

FILES

/etc/sysconfig/clock

Configures the format used by the hardware clock.

SEE ALSO

clock(8), timeconfig(8)

AUTHOR

Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

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