From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 14 15:49:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pogo.caustic.org (caustic.org [64.163.147.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86DDE37B401 for ; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 15:49:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jan@caustic.org) Received: from localhost (jan@localhost) by pogo.caustic.org (8.11.0/ignatz) with ESMTP id f7EMnHo08652; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 15:49:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 15:49:16 -0700 (PDT) From: "f.johan.beisser" To: Tabor Kelly Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unable to Set Date In-Reply-To: <5082567996.20010814154135@dsl-only.net> Message-ID: X-Ignore: This statement isn't supposed to be read by you MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Tabor Kelly wrote: > So, I just installed a new webserver and I am having trouble setting > the date. Does anybody have any ideas? Did I (fatally) leave something > out of the kernel? to change the date, you may need to use a full timestamp. read the date(1) man page for more info. date, if given with a bad flag pops out with: [jan@hi chap1] {647} date -h date: illegal option -- h usage: date [-nu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] [-f fmt date | [[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[.ss]] [+format] -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "if my thought-dreams could be seen.. "they'd probably put my head in a gillotine" -- Bob Dylan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message