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
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