Linux clock-setting script

[Peter Hansen]

Paul Rubin wrote:
> 
> Dmitri I GOULIAEV <dmitri.gouliaev at telkel.net> writes:
> > Or you can have just one line of shell command, like
> >
> >   # ntpdate host
> >
> > which is (most probably) already in your distribution.
> > Do you have it in your distribution ? (just curious)
> 
> No, not in Red Hat 7.2 or 7.3.  It's probably in the big NTP package
> that's downloadable/installable, but as I said, I didn't feel like
> figuring all that stuff out.

I agree.  Besides, the Python version is easier to make portable, which
I just did for my Windows 98 machines.  (Thanks Paul!)

I changed the core of the "--set" conditional to this:

        if os.name == 'posix':
            os.system("/usr/sbin/hwclock --set '--date=%s'"% ct)
        elif os.name == 'nt':
            tt = time.localtime(t - TIME1970)
            # warning: assumes M-D-Y (American) date format here!
            winDate = '%s-%s-%s' % (tt[1], tt[2], tt[0])
            winTime = '%s:%s:%s' % tt[3:6]
            os.system("date %s" % winDate)
            os.system("time %s" % winTime)
        else:
            print 'Unsupported OS %s, cannot set time.' % os.name

I also had to add a hash-bang line to the start, and change the 
Linux path to /sbin/hwclock for my Linux boxes... Not sure that's 
good, bad, or whether one should just rely on PATH to find the 
executable.

-Peter