On Wednesday 13 February 2002 08:33 pm, Robert A. Henderson wrote: > > If you want to do it through command line: > > > > man date > > You are assuming the box in question has a video head on it. Or that X is > installed. No GUI, no KDE. :-) > > man date doesn't really give a good example of the format. Something like > "date -s Jan-19-2001:12:12:12" would be good. > > I had to fall back on my guessing and what works on the Ciscos. Close > enough.
For GNU-based systems, sometimes that man pages aren't enough. info date ->"Options for date" ->"Note Date input formats" That'll take you to a page with more than you wanted to know, I'm sure. ---Tom
