[TriLUG] Set date and time

[Andrew Perrin]

date -s '11-feb-2002 16:36:30'

works for me.

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Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin at unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
 Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
      269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA


On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Robert A. Henderson wrote:

> Ok, this is stupid but it's driving me crazy. I need to change the date
> and time on a Mandrake 8.0 box. I know it's "date -s blah" but I'm having
> trouble with the "blah" part. 
> 
> Yes, I did a man and it ain't helping. I've done this before but lately
> I've fallen victim to the GUI mush brain syndrome and now I can't get the
> command line to work worth a flip. 
> 
> What's the format? 
> 
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