🚀 go-pugleaf

|I tried to set the time with netdate off a Sun BTW.
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|Is there any way to rid Linux's dependency on the BIOS clock 
|for setting the time?  

I use xntpd which comes with ntpdate for setting the time from an
accurate server on the Net. I don't know about netdate but certainly
ntpdate hasn't got any problems with DST as it works in GMT.

Normally the CMOS clock is consulted at boot up only so you need to
write the time back to CMOS after correcting it. If it's only a few
days between logins, I find the CMOS clock doesn't drift more than a
few seconds and this is good enough for me.

As someone else pointed out, if you only have Linux, use GMT for the
CMOS clock.  If you must run DOG, you need to use local time but you
will have more hassles with DST corrections.