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- From: mlo@Bonnie.ICS.UCI.EDU (--)
- Subject: Re: Wish list for Christmas
- Message-ID: <9212172115.aa10124@Bonnie.ics.uci.edu>
- In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 18 Dec 92 00:28:26 +0000.
- <1992Dec18.002826.19540@unislc.uucp>
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Lines: 21
- Date: 18 Dec 92 05:15:55 GMT
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- [...]
- > :
- > : >What I would like to put on the wish list is for date(1) to update the
- > : >CMOS clock. My system has a basically dead battery, so the clock
- > : >doesn't actually run when I shut it off. When I restart the computer
- > : >(if it hasn't been too long) the result of a date is the same time at
- > : >which I shut the computer off.
- > :
- [...]
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- IS date supposed to set the CMOS clock? I've stayed away from it
- because after each time I've used it, I'd find myself anywhere from
- several minutes behind to somewhere back in May 1929.
-
- I'd rather leave that sort of stuff to Michael J. Fox.
-
- - Mike
-
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- Michael Lo
- mlo@bonnie.ics.uci.edu
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