Re: setting the system clock before launching operating system

[Arthur Marsh]

Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote, on 2008-09-13 00:13:
> Geoff Karl wrote:
> > I would like to be able to set the clock to a particular time
> > automatically before launching an operating system.
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas if this can be done during the boot loader process?
>
> Yes it can be done. But why?

Some machines (e.g. a Compaq Armada 1750) don't have the option to set 
the time via BIOS or set-up boot floppy.

When the time had been lost, I'd have start-up problems with fsck 
checking when the file system had last been checked.

Being able to set the time in grub or a program directly launchable from 
grub would help avoid these problems.

Arthur.