RHEL: Getting/Setting hardware clock’s time

RHEL: Getting/Setting hardware clock's time

# Tested on RHEL 6 & 7

# Just an extract from 'hwclock' man page

   hwclock -r or hwclock --show
   hwclock -w or hwclock --systohc
   hwclock -s or hwclock --hctosys
   hwclock --set --date=newdate


   --show Read  the Hardware Clock and print the time on Standard Output.  The time shown is always in local time, even if you keep your
      Hardware Clock in Coordinated Universal Time.  See the --utc option.

   --set  Set the Hardware Clock to the time given by the --date option.

   --hctosys
      Set the System Time from the Hardware Clock.

      Also set the kernel's timezone value to the local timezone as indicated by the TZ environment variable and/or /usr/share/zone-
      info, as tzset(3) would interpret them.  The obsolete tz_dsttime field of the kernel's timezone value is set to DST_NONE. (For
      details on what this field used to mean, see settimeofday(2).)

      This is a good option to use in one of the system startup scripts.

   --systohc
      Set the Hardware Clock to the current System Time.
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