Linux date as filepro sees it

[Jeff Harrison]

--- Ron Kracht <rkracht at filegate.net> wrote:

> Bill Campbell wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 25, 2006, Jeff Harrison wrote:
> >   
> >> --- Fairlight <fairlite at fairlite.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > ...
> >   
> >> Thanks.  I don't know what time zone the box is
> >> configured for.  Do you take me for a sys admin
> or
> >> something :-)
> >>     
> >
> >   
> >> I tried echo $TZ and it did not come back with
> any
> >> value.  I'll bet you are right - that the BIOS
> time is
> >> off.  Is there a way to heck that without
> re-booting?
> >>     
> >
> > Presuming that the Linux time is correct, and that
> you're logged
> > in as root, ``hwclock -u -w'' will write the Linux
> time to the
> > hardware clock.  I can't imagine FP going to the
> hardware instead
> > of using the normal Linux/Unix calls to get the
> time.
> >
> > Bill
> >   
> 
> I find it a good idea to sync with a time server
> before running the 
> hwclock command you suggest. 
> 
> The command to do that is rdate -s timeServerAddress
> 
> Information related to finding a public time server
> is available at
>
http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Servers/WebHome#Finding_A_Time_Server
> 
> If you find your hardware clock drifting a
> inordinate amount it can be a 
> good idea to put the above commands in a cron job.
> 
> 

Thanks Mark, Bill and Ron for all of the suggestions. 
I'll give this info to their sys admin as I am not
brave enough to do any of this remotely.  - Or perhaps
I should say I am not remotely brave enough :-)

Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com

Author of JHExport and JHImport.  The easiest and
fastest ways to generate code for filePro exports and
imports.



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