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From: cdold@starfish.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: Accurate Timekeeping
Keywords: real time clock, system time
Message-ID: <834@starfish.Convergent.COM>
Date: 2 Dec 88 04:58:56 GMT
References: <6163@fluke.COM>
Organization: Convergent Technologies, San Jose, CA
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From article <6163@fluke.COM>, by vince@tc.fluke.COM (Craig Johnson):
> I have gotten tired of my 7300 keeping inaccurate time.
[ ... ]
> If your Unix-pc has been up for a while, login as someone other than
> root and type,
> 
> 	$ date -; date
> 
The newer Convergent Systems do have such a line in the crontab:

0 4 * * * (echo "setting the system date\nfrom: \c"; date; date -; echo "to: \c"; date) >/dev/console
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