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Re: changing the date
Quoting Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo <frodo@sharat.co.il>:
> At least on my RH. It was "clock" somewhere in time, but it moved to be
> hwclock - I think to emphasize that it sets hardware clock, not just some
> volatile "system time" :)
IIRC, the problem with the clock program was that it was not y2k compatible,
the hwclock fixed that problem, to emphasis it, they changed the
name so everyone would be able to know what version he/she has.
I might be mistaken, but that's how I remember things...
Liran.
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