I've installed Slack several times in past few years (now …

Thursday, 28th March 2024

Comment on How to fix clock on Slackware / Slackware and this old incorrect BIOS time troubles by john.

I've installed Slack several times in past few years (now Jan 2018, v14.2). I have always had so much trouble with slack's incorrect time that I just gave up finally. Your article has been read and used by me several times – with no results or inconsistent results. This may well be my fault.Your instructions are themselves ambiguous: "The *system clock* on Slackware is set by a script called timeconfig…'; It is not obvious jjust WHAT is meant here by " the 'system clock' ". Are you saying that this Slackware script can actually *change* the hardware clock?  I guess then that there is no reason to reboot into the BIOS to do that, huh?

I am fully cognizant of the meaning of the 24 zones, UT, GMT, etc and have been an amateur astronomer for 50-odd years. The problem is not mine, but the total ambiguity and incompleteness of LInux 'documentation', in my opinion. I have, in fact, *never seen* a thorough, unambiguous discussion of just how to make these settings "correctly" for Slackware.

Thanks for your kind attempt, though.

john Also Commented

How to fix clock on Slackware / Slackware and this old incorrect BIOS time troubles
If you doubt the problem of ambiguity, just have a look at this 'slack doc' or 'how to':

https://docs.slackware.com/howtos:hardware:syncing_hardware_clock_and_system_local_time

 which included a "Procedure to  Synchronize the System Time to Hardware Clock" (???)

What is this so-called 'system time', if not the hardware clock? And which are you talking about in your article above?

Confused


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