Time and Date

[Don Dupy]

Yep, thats the point
man date is real confusing

Don Dupy
Systems Administrator
Maxxrad PC Services
http://www.maxxrad.net
email: fedora at maxxrad.net

On Sun, 30 May 2004, Dexter Ang wrote:

> Don Dupy wrote:
> > does anyone know a simple way to change the time and date
> > on a FC1 machine in command line mode
> > I don't have a gui installed
> >
> > I don't quite understand the "date" command options
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Don Dupy
>
> date --set "Jul 22 1980 13:00:00"
>
> or something like it. i would have suggested "man date" but, looking
> through it, it probably wouldn't have helped. basically, type "date" and
> see the result. you can pretty much copy the format, changing the values
> you want. or, if you have internet access, ntp isn't blocked by
> firewalls, and you have your timezone correctly set, as root type
> "/usr/sbin/ntpdate time.nist.gov". this will automatically set the
> correct time on your machine. =)
>
> hope this helps.
>
> dex
>
>
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