SCO 'date'

[Jerry Sheckel]

Hello.  I'm running SCO Sys V/386 3.2.1 (ODT 1.0).  What the hell is wrong
with the 'date' command?  It actually seems to overwrite the CMOS clock!
I got sick of having to enter the correct time upon bootup, so I deleted
a few lines from /etc/asktimerc, so that all it does is essentially a
"date `setclock`".  This works roughly half the time.  The other half of
the time, the date ends up being a few hours off (not minutes, always hours).
The weird thing is that entering "date `setclock`" from the command line
actually advances the CMOS clock by 5 hours, every time.  Anyone out there
have problems like these?  Any solutions?
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