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knc1 · 07-12-2013, 08:51 AM

Ah, phooey.
Lab126 forgot the -u option use in their testing and/or scripting.
And that crew **gets paid** to turn out this stuff!

@ixtab: Any chance that Java is somewhere maintaining its own idea of the date/time/tz without reference to the system/hardware clocks?
I.E: A module that should only be used on systems that do not have hardware date/time?

Hmm...
I guess I could re-write the ntpdate button to store local time in the hardware of the K4.
But that seems kind of like a kludge to me.

07-12-2013, 08:51 AM	#14
knc1 Going Viral Posts: 17,212 Karma: 18210809 Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Central Texas Device: No K1, PW2, KV, KOA	Ah, phooey. Lab126 forgot the -u option use in their testing and/or scripting. And that crew gets paid to turn out this stuff! @ixtab: Any chance that Java is somewhere maintaining its own idea of the date/time/tz without reference to the system/hardware clocks? I.E: A module that should only be used on systems that do not have hardware date/time? Hmm... I guess I could re-write the ntpdate button to store local time in the hardware of the K4. But that seems kind of like a kludge to me. Last edited by knc1; 07-12-2013 at 08:56 AM.