linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] not important problem we are just interested: time date

Friday, January 22, 2016

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] not important problem we are just interested: time date

On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 01:21:56PM +0100, 'highskywhy@yahoo.de' highskywhy@yahoo.de [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:

> Am 12.01.2016 um 15:23 schrieb Hal halinux@frontier.com [LINUX_Newbies]:
> >
> > We routinely run the following on all machines, from the command line:
> >
> > 'netdate tcp 158.152.1.76'
> >
> > That site is in the UK; ntp.demon.co.uk, but I'm sure there are many others
> > in Germany and Europe..
> >
> > That corrects the present session and can be written immediately to the
> > hardware clock:
> >
> > 'hwclock -w'

> Is this a check or a repair? Regards Sophie
>
They check the time and synchronize the computer's time. So, it isn't a
complete repair, that is, it won't fix the underlying problem, but it will
set the computer clock correctly.
> >

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