I realize this could be extremely outdated, but so was my system time, and when I tried to correct it ... I had to revert to trial and error to make it work.
The help and man pages for the shell command "date" on my Linux server (krenal 2.2.14) were incorrect. kremlin:~$ date --help Usage: date [OPTION]... [+FORMAT] or: date [OPTION] [MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]] -s, --set=STRING set time described by STRING Using the command "date -s 010200122002.30" gave me the error "invalid date". Through trial and error I came up with the following two commands to get done what I needed done. date -s 020102 date -s 00:12:30 The first setting year, month day The second setting hour:minue:second Also, the example date shown in the help file was of the year 1989 ... I assume that would be when the help was written. Perhaps it's time for an update? Paul Smyers System Administrator Stone & Ward (501) 375-3003 _______________________________________________ Bug-sh-utils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-sh-utils
