Setting date permanently

[Algemon]

How do you make the date change permanently?

I use the command:
# date 11172000
ie in the form (mmddhhmm(month,day,hours,minutes)
But it doesn't stay permanent after a reboot.

How do you change the bios also? I tried rebooting and going into the bios on reboot but there is no way of changing the date in my bios (Toshiba laptop 410CDT p90, 16Mb Ram, 770 Mb HD)

I can't seem to update the date for the machine.

[Evil Jeff]

Using linuxconf always worked for me. Especially since my bios can't be set to not use daylight savings time. But linuxconf should let you change the time zone too.

Evil Jeff
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[posterboy]

I use hwclock to solve this. In your case, it would seem hwclock --systohc would be the needed command, but see the hwclock man page. Ray

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