You can also use the non-geek format:
date -s 6/12/2000
date -s 11:38am
At 10:40 AM 6/12/00 -0700, Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>ncammack wrote:
>
>> Greetings all,
>>
>> Got another newbie question.....I'm using KDE (which I
>> REALLY like) but the time on my panel is off by an hour.
>
>Is the problem that your clock is off, or are you in the wrong time
>zone?
>
>If it's a Redhat or Mandrake system, look at the file /etc/sysconfig/clock.
>It should contain a line that says:
>
> ZONE="..US/Pacific"
>
>If it's a SuSE, Debian, Caldera, Slackware, TurboLinux, or other
>system, I don't know how to set the time zone, but you can check it
>with the date command -- it should say PDT. Like this.
>
> % date
> Mon Jun 12 10:32:41 PDT 2000
>
>If the time zone is right, then log in as the superuser (root) and use
>the date(1) command to set the current time. The man page explains
>the format, but the man page has way too much info. Right now, it's
>Mon Jun 12 10:34:48 PDT 2000, so I'd type:
>
> # date 06121034.48
>
>(as in, 06 month, 12 day, 10 hour, 34 minute, 48 seconds).
>
>It probably uses the weird date format because sometime around 1973
>some programmer at Bell Labs didn't want to spend more than a couple
>of minutes writing a date parsing routine.
>
>--
> K<bob>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jogger-egg.com/
>
