topic Reseting system clocks in Operating System - HP-UX

Reseting system clocks

Chuck Ciesinski — Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:06:58 GMT

We have an L-class system which for some unknown reason has 'lost' ten minutes. Is there an easy way to reset the system clock forward say from 9:05 am to 9:15 am?

Any and all help will be appreciated.

Chuck Ciesinski

Re: Reseting system clocks

Fabio Ettore — Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:13:42 GMT

Hi,

by SAM.

SAM ---> Time ---> System clock

Adjust time and OK.

HTH.

Best regards,
Ettore

Re: Reseting system clocks

Bryan D. Quinn — Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:15:35 GMT

Hey Chuck,

You can use the date command.

How long did it take for the time to drop back ten minutes? Was it a trickle or relatively quick?

Sounds like you might need a new battery on your system board.

Hope this helps!

-Bryan

Re: Reseting system clocks

Bryan D. Quinn — Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:20:18 GMT

Hey Chuck,

Sorry, I meant to provide and example with the date command:

To use date command to set to April 22 09:15:

date 04220915

-Bryan

Re: Reseting system clocks

sparky_2 — Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:22:16 GMT

You can use "ntpdate" which will update your clock based on the time obtained from the Network Time Protocol server specified.
Note that you can configure your /etc/ntp.conf and /etc/rc.config.d/netdaemons files to ensure that your clock is keeping time consistently.

Re: Reseting system clocks

eran maor — Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:33:33 GMT

Hi

user the command date to change it with this syntax :
# date mmddhhmm

eran maor

Re: Reseting system clocks

Chuck Ciesinski — Thu, 22 Apr 2004 09:31:41 GMT

To all who replied,

Thank you for your quick response. The server lost the 10 minutes in about 5 days. WE have adjusted the clocks and are now engaging a 'synch' program and background daemon..

Again, much thanks,

Chuck Ciesinski