16.63. cdist-type__hwclock(7)¶

16.63.1. NAME¶

cdist-type__hwclock - Manage the hardware real time clock.

16.63.2. DESCRIPTION¶

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

16.63.3. 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.)

16.63.4. OPTIONAL PARAMETERS¶

None.

16.63.5. BOOLEAN PARAMETERS¶

None.

16.63.6. EXAMPLES¶

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

16.63.7. SEE ALSO¶

hwclock(8)

16.63.8. AUTHORS¶

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

16.63.9. 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.