Re: [PATCH] doc: date: mention that the hardware clock might not be set

[Pádraig Brady]

On 11/01/2011 07:55 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> commit a496b7ce575a12d952bb77eb9766719b4bd4ae6e
>> Author: Pádraig Brady <address@hidden>
>> Date:   Tue Nov 1 17:29:53 2011 +0000
>>
>>     doc: date: mention that the hardware clock might not be set
>>
>>     * doc/coreutils.texi (Setting the time): Reorganize slightly
>>     and mention that the hardware clock might need to be explicitly
>>     updated by the user as is the case on Fedora 16 currently.
> 
> Thanks.  The change looks fine.
> I'll nit-pick the log a little, though ;-)
> 
> Isn't it KDE-specific?

No. As of Fedora 16, setting the date with `date` does not
persist across reboot.  One has to call hwclock explicitly,
as it's no longer called at shutdown.  That's a debatable
change, but I wanted to at least distinguish the hardware clock
in the docs as there are other systems that behave like this
(as mentioned in the bug comments).

> 
>       updated by the user as is currently the case with Fedora 16's KDE.
> 
>>     See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=749516
> 
> How about the shorter equivalent? (dropping the "s" in https
> as well as /sh.*id=/):
> 
>       See http://bugzilla.redhat.com/749516

I'll merge that.

> To help remember, I'll be using the patch below.

Nice!

thanks for the review,
Pádraig.