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authorKarel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>2016-10-25 16:52:43 +0200
committerKarel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>2016-10-25 16:52:43 +0200
commit82e8ddacb4ac9221835d5d1c2930cb5a5a0a8440 (patch)
treebdcd610c13d279a44205ac7bd51b749bd922165f
parentdb449e059d574fa1ee9def66ef169b8c0be4b965 (diff)
downloadutil-linux-82e8ddacb4ac9221835d5d1c2930cb5a5a0a8440.tar.gz
rtcwake: add note about RTC limits
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--sys-utils/rtcwake.8.in3
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diff --git a/sys-utils/rtcwake.8.in b/sys-utils/rtcwake.8.in
index d8acd0aa1f..c72bf3cae8 100644
--- a/sys-utils/rtcwake.8.in
+++ b/sys-utils/rtcwake.8.in
@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ implement those without analogues of BIOS, APM, or ACPI.
On some systems, this can also be used like \fBnvram-wakeup\fP, waking from states
like ACPI S4 (suspend to disk). Not all systems have persistent media that are
appropriate for such suspend modes.
+.PP
+Note that alarm functionality depends on hardware; not every RTC is able to setup
+an alarm up to 24 hours in the future.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BR \-A , " \-\-adjfile " \fIfile