From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 13 4:51:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monsoon.mail.pipex.net (monsoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DA833150FE for ; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 04:51:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 29774 invoked from network); 13 Nov 1999 12:51:47 -0000 Received: from userca62.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.150.130) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 13 Nov 1999 12:51:47 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id CAA01849; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 02:14:46 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 02:14:46 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: bunny Cc: freebsd Subject: Re: HOW TO CHANGE THE DATE IN UNIX Message-ID: <19990930021446.H317@marder-1> References: <004701bf2dd3$4066ede0$f30582cb@intel> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <004701bf2dd3$4066ede0$f30582cb@intel> Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Nov 13, 1999 at 05:33:04PM +0500, bunny wrote: > Dear Sir, > 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 > Checkout the manpage for date(1), but for the example above use (as root): date 0001131122.13 sets the time as well (11:22:13). HTH > Thanks alot > > Bunny > -- STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message