[ILUG] Strange 'Date' problems

[Ross Lynch]

On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, James Cloney wrote:

> Hi All.,
> 
> Running Red Hat 6.2 (kernel 2.2:.12-20)on Intel.  When I set the date
> <cmd>date 12121100<cmd> as root to a new time everything stays as it
> should untill I restart the machine (restarting X is fine) the the date
> reverts to old one.  For clarification when time was 09:00 changed to
> 11:00 when rebooted time reverts to 09:00.  Anyone have this happen/know
> what I am doing wrong.

Have you got the clock set to use the hardware clock in your machine? Try
changing the time in the BIOS and see if it updates in Redhat.

HTH,
Ross.

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