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authorAndrey A. Chernov <ache@FreeBSD.org>1996-04-05 23:53:23 +0000
committerAndrey A. Chernov <ache@FreeBSD.org>1996-04-05 23:53:23 +0000
commitbf152145d268e7fa09f253492eece08436d53e41 (patch)
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parentbacbb38233cfe74cd2438ef4107902892f58b730 (diff)
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-rw-r--r--sbin/adjkerntz/adjkerntz.812
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/adjkerntz/adjkerntz.8 b/sbin/adjkerntz/adjkerntz.8
index 0c60fc4afbd6..948dd40b04d0 100644
--- a/sbin/adjkerntz/adjkerntz.8
+++ b/sbin/adjkerntz/adjkerntz.8
@@ -46,6 +46,10 @@ If the file
exists, it means that CMOS clock keep local time (MS-DOS and MS-Windows
compatible mode),
if that file does not exist it means that CMOS clock keep UTC time.
+.Nm Adjkerntz
+passes this state to
+.Pa machdep.wall_cmos_clock
+kernel variable.
.Pp
Adjustments may be needed at system startup and shutdown, and
whenever a time zone change occurs.
@@ -58,19 +62,19 @@ This form handles system startups and shutdowns.
.Nm Adjkerntz
is invoked with this option from
.Pa /etc/rc
-before any other daemons have been started.
+on entry to multi-user mode, before any other daemons have been started.
.Nm Adjkerntz
puts itself into the background.
Then for wall CMOS clock
.Nm adjkerntz
-reads the local time from the it
+reads the local time from it
and sets the kernel clock to the corresponding UTC time.
.Nm Adjkerntz
also stores the local time zone offset into the
.Pa machdep.adjkerntz
kernel variable, for use by subsequent invocations of
.Nm "'adjkerntz -a'"
-and local time file systems.
+and by local time file systems.
.Pp
For wall CMOS clock
.Nm "'adjkerntz -i'"
@@ -102,7 +106,7 @@ It stores the new offset into the
kernel variable, and updates the wall CMOS clock to the new local time.
If
.Nm "'adjkerntz -a'"
-starts at nonexisten time (inside timezone change), it exits
+was started at nonexisten time (inside timezone change), it exits
with warning diagnostic unless
.Fl s
option is used, in this case