From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 30 19:59:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from static.unixfreak.org (static.unixfreak.org [63.198.170.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1845C37B97A for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 19:59:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dima@static.unixfreak.org) Received: by static.unixfreak.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 892941F11; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 19:59:26 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: setting the system date In-Reply-To: <200007310247.WAA05985@hc1.hci.net> from Mike Johnson at "Jul 30, 2000 10:49:23 pm" To: ahze@wp.cc.nc.us Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 19:59:26 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Dima Dorfman X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20000731025926.892941F11@static.unixfreak.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > > the easiest way to do it is install rdate , its a package and its a port . > just type (as root) > > rdate -s timehost.gsfc.nasa.gov Or, if you don't want to install anything, try: ntpdate timehost.gsfc.nasa.gov Dima > > On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Tyler Spivey wrote: > > Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 19:06:17 -0700 > > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > From: Tyler Spivey > > Subject: setting the system date > > > > my cmos batteries dead, but: > > how d i set the date? can you specify year 2000? can you > > give me an example? man date is wierd. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Dima Dorfman - Enriched/HTML messages > /dev/null PGP Fingerprint: CC 2A DD 54 12 85 7D 8B B3 CE B3 10 9C BE D5 69 Finger dima@unixfreak.org for public PGP key. "Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it." -- Dilbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message