CDIST-TYPE__HWCLOCK

NAME

cdist-type__hwclock - Manage the hardware real time clock.

DESCRIPTION

This type can be used to control how the hardware clock is used by the operating system.

REQUIRED PARAMETERS

mode

What mode the hardware clock is in.

Acceptable values:
localtime

The hardware clock is set to local time (common for systems also running Windows.)

UTC

The hardware clock is set to UTC (common on UNIX systems.)

OPTIONAL PARAMETERS

None.

BOOLEAN PARAMETERS

None.

EXAMPLES

# Make the operating system treat the time read from the hwclock as UTC.
__hwclock --mode UTC

SEE ALSO

hwclock(8)

AUTHORS

Dennis Camera <dennis.camera@ssrq-sds-fds.ch>

COPYING

Copyright (C) 2020 Dennis Camera. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

COPYRIGHT

ungleich GmbH 2021