Re: date - system time

[Bob Proulx]

> Thank you -- may be a Unix-like hint is welcome?
[...]
> SEE ALSO
>        The full documentation for date is maintained as a Texinfo
>        manual.  If  the  info  and  date  programs  are  properly
>        installed at your site, the command
> 
>               info date
> 
>        should give you access to the complete manual.
> 
> >>>>   zic(8), hwclock(8) <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

The problem is that hwclock is a Linux specific command.  Which I
pointed you to since you said you were running Linux and SuSE in
particular.  Bug the GNU sh-utils is not Linux specific.  It has been
around since before Linux was developed and is used on many different
operating system platforms.  Putting this pointer here would be
terribly confusing on HP-UX, IBM AIX, Solaris, Irix, Cygwin,
etc. which do not have a hwclock command and set the system clocks all
differently.  And trying to document all of those would be an
impossibly hard task as the number of systems that use GNU date is
large, dynamic, usually growing and unknown.

Perhaps it would be possible to say that systems usually do have a
hardware clock underneath and that hardware clock is set with
utilities other than GNU date, which sets only the OS clock.

Bob