I have GNU date 1.16 on my system You use the date -s flag in almost any format, and it should work date -s Tue Oct 20 20:17:35 1998 should do the trick if you're running a similar version. Of course, you need to be logged in as root to do that. DA On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Ken Russell wrote: > Real newbie question here... I've tried to change the time on my box a > zillion times, something like: > > %date -s 1019235300 > > But it doesn't work, and the man pages are opaque to me, as usual. Seems > like I should put a "+" in there somewhere--it wants me to format it, but > does not give an example of how to do it. I'm not too particular in how it > looks as long as it is the current date and time. Could someone please give > me an example of how this command works? Thanks a zillion! > Tom (I haven't had to reboot my computer in over 2 days) Myro Webmaster, cyber-nurse.com, camerology.com Free CGI's: http://www.cyber-nurse.com/workshop
