Linux date as filepro sees it

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Bill Campbell (Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:29:14 -0700):
[...]
> 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.

filePro uses time(2) to get the UTC time, followed by localtime(3)
to adjust to the local timezone.  We do not access the hardware
clock in any way.  (Unless the O/S does it to return the current
time to filePro.)

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