hwclock - query and set the hardware clock (RTC)
Usage: hwclock [function] [options...]
Functions:
--help show this help
--show read hardware clock and print result
--set set the rtc to the time given with --date
--hctosys set the system time from the hardware clock
--systohc set the hardware clock to the current system time
--adjust adjust the rtc to account for systematic drift since
the clock was last set or adjusted
--getepoch print out the kernel's hardware clock epoch value
--setepoch set the kernel's hardware clock epoch value to the
value given with --epoch
--version print out the version of hwclock to stdout
Options:
--utc the hardware clock is kept in coordinated universal time
--localtime the hardware clock is kept in local time
--rtc=path special /dev/... file to use instead of default
--directisa access the ISA bus directly instead of
%s
--badyear ignore rtc's year because the bios is broken
--date specifies the time to which to set the hardware clock
--epoch=year specifies the year which is the beginning of the
hardware clock's epoch value
--noadjfile do not access /etc/adjtime. Requires the use of
either --utc or --localtime
--adjfile=path specifies the path to the adjust file (default is
/etc/adjtime)
