Updating and displaying CMOS clock

Victor Sudakov vas at mpeks.tomsk.su
Mon Jul 7 02:10:20 UTC 2014


Warren Block wrote:
> 
> > In other words, what's the FreeBSD equivalent of the Linux
> > "hwclock --systohc" command?
> 
> Offhand, I don't know.  But date(1) sets both kernel and hardware 
> clocks, so a hacky way to do that is
> 
>    date -v +0S

I have googled up another hacky way of to do that:

sysctl `sysctl -e machdep.adjkerntz`

It's from https://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org/msg03414.html

But I have not found anything to display the CMOS clock, only to set it.

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