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...



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