I meant the system time automatically updating for daylight savings should happen if you have your time zone set properly, and your hardware clock set for GMT. > From the stuff I've read before on the subject, I thought the date command > wouldn't update the hardware clock but the clock command would; hence the > script I posted up here several days ago. Basically, I did a netdate deal > to pull the time from a time server and then used the clock command to > update it if the netdate command was successful. I generally use the date > command in a alias with the %mm%yy%dd construct to give me a quick > date/time command I can run from the keyboard. > AFAIK time will update automatically if you store it in the hardware clock > in > GMT, but not in local time. > > Weird. On both my slackware and debian systems the time updated > > automatically. >
