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1 .Dd February 2, 2015
2 .Dt HWCLOCK 8
3 .Os ubase
4 .Sh NAME
5 .Nm hwclock
6 .Nd query or set the hardware clock
7 .Sh SYNOPSIS
8 .Nm
9 .Op Fl r | Fl s | Fl w
10 .Op Fl u
11 .Op Ar dev
12 .Sh DESCRIPTION
13 .Nm
14 is a tool for accessing the hardware clock. You can display the current time,
15 set the hardware clock from the System Time, or set the System Time from the
16 hardware clock. It currently only works with UTC. You can use
17 .Ar dev
18 to specify the RTC device node absolute path. By default
19 it will use
20 .Pa /dev/rtc .
21 .Sh OPTIONS
22 .Bl -tag -width Ds
23 .It Fl r
24 Read the hardware clock and print the time on stdout.
25 .It Fl s
26 Set the system time from the hardware clock.
27 .It Fl u
28 Use UTC. This is the default option.
29 .It Fl w
30 Set the hardware clock to the system time.
31 .El