On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Ken Russell wrote: > Real newbie question here... I've tried to change the time on my box a > zillion times, something like: > > %date -s 1019235300 My man pages say nothing about a '-s' flag. > But it doesn't work, and the man pages are opaque to me, as usual. Seems > like I should put a "+" in there somewhere--it wants me to format it, but > does not give an example of how to do it. I'm not too particular in how it > looks as long as it is the current date and time. Could someone please give > me an example of how this command works? Thanks a zillion! Are you logged in as root? That is required to change the system time. Good luck, Gordon A. Gallup Dept. of Physics and Astronomy University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-0111 Voice: (402)472-1230 FAX: (402)472-2879 http://www.unl.edu/physics/
