Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!peer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.posted.gcicommunications!news.posted.gcicommunications.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 01:09:51 -0500 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.os.linux.debian Subject: Re: what VESA/vga *AM* I useing? References: From: floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) Organization: __________ Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 22:09:46 -0800 Message-ID: <87tx2u0zit.fld@barrow.com> User-Agent: gnus 5.10.6/XEmacs 21.4.15/Linux 2.6.19 Cancel-Lock: sha1:xj1JZE9lMc58TqqrgQ6i6pzFIWw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Lines: 36 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.237.125.254 X-Trace: sv3-Oln5ggnnLaRX0Lgm1e1tWeN2LVUy+QcBjjlWwL9KpkOhl7fja8dUo77/chUtrlixVkEWhNCkJkCdNjS!Nux5O7kPndN3iXUKKIxsXq8l8HAgCWo+ycwsI5I1uUWHlmM2gxUiBMh9vDwHKfejXc3uhl4/ X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2552 X-Received-Bytes: 2664 X-Received-Body-CRC: 3246676422 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:12437 "Chester A. Arthur" wrote: >On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 06:07:23 +0000, not.socialnetwork wrote: > >> PS. how do you easily set the RTC back by 7 minutes, >> without decoding the absurd `man'? > >Set the system clock correctly with the date command, then >run 'sudo hwclock -w', assuming TZ is set properly. /usr/sbin/ntpdate -b us.pool.ntp.org >Read the rtc with 'cat /proc/driver/rtc|head -1' or something >similar on most linuxes. Why not just invoke the "date" command. >One should always keep the hwclock in UTC. System time will >change with the rules for your local time zone, and computers >move, especially laptops. Most linuxes these days follow these >rules, except the gentoo family. Slackware gives you an >explicit choice at install--choose UTC. The BSDs I have tried >give no choice, they set the hwclock to localtime, that's dumb. Most people will be *far* better served setting the hwclock to local time than to UTC. >Localtime is crazy, the rules change and there are so many >strangenesses. (The world ends at midnite-12:30 Newfie time). >There is software to deal with that, and it works well if it >isn't bypassed by OSes that make poor choices. You're making life much more difficult than it need be. -- Floyd L. Davidson http://www.apaflo.com/ Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) floyd@apaflo.com