[TriLUG] Set date and time

Tom Bryan tbryan at python.net
Wed Feb 13 09:51:33 EST 2002


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



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