On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 15:17, Brett wrote: > I have found some documented examples of using "clock" and "hwclock" (it's > amazing what you find after a computer break:-) , but they still do not > seem to work (and give the same I gave previously). I have tried the following: > > hwclock --set --date="7 Jul 2003 14:32" > hwclock --set --date="07 Jul 2003 14:32" > clock --set --date="7 Jul 2003 14:32" > clock --set --date="07 Jul 2003 14:32" > > AFAIK these commands are valid, can anybody tell me why they might not be > OR does anybody know of a statically linked binary of a network time program? > The following works for me on Mandrake 9.1:
>date --set "07/06/03 16:24:00" #Note that date uses US date format. >hwclock --systohc I hope that it works the same for you... Cheers, John... -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
