Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 13:44:59 +0100 From: Alexander Langer <alex@cichlids.com> To: bunny <bunny@super.net.pk> Cc: freebsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: HOW TO CHANGE THE DATE IN UNIX Message-ID: <19991113134459.B5188@cichlids.cichlids.com> In-Reply-To: <004701bf2dd3$4066ede0$f30582cb@intel>; from bunny@super.net.pk on Sat, Nov 13, 1999 at 05:33:04PM %2B0500 References: <004701bf2dd3$4066ede0$f30582cb@intel>
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Thus spake bunny (bunny@super.net.pk):
> I know this is the help site for FreeBSD. Please if you could just tell me on how to change the date in UNIX machine . I have tried all the methods. There is something which i am not doing right. If some one could help me I would really appreciate it.
> Please give me an evample of Jan 13, 2000
read date(1)!
There is:
SYNOPSIS
date [-jnu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t minutes_west]
[-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]]
... [-f fmt date | [[[[yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[.ss]] [+format]
to set the date, use
000113HHMM.SS
Where HHMM.SS is the time (hour, minutes, seconds)
POSIX (I believe) sets the years "00-38" to be 2000-2038 and the years
"70-99" to be 1970-1999.
39-69 are unspecified.
BTW: We don't have Jan 13, 2000 now.
If you want to set the current time, you might want to check out
"ntpdate", which is in the ports.
Alex
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