From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 14 16: 3:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pdxpo.dsl-only.net (sub16-3.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.16.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E25037B407 for ; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 16:03:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pdxmax@dsl-only.net) Received: from tabor.office.archimedesoft.com (unverified [63.105.19.225]) by pdxpo.dsl-only.net (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.5.4) with ESMTP id ; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 15:59:03 -0700 Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 16:03:40 -0700 From: Tabor Kelly X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.49) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 Reply-To: Tabor Kelly X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <983893172.20010814160340@dsl-only.net> To: "f.johan.beisser" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re[2]: Unable to Set Date In-reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 I tried: #date 0108141602 Tue Aug 14 16:02:00 PDT 2001 #date Tue Aug 14 08:59:00 PDT 2001 Both this, and my earlier attempt were taken as examples out of the man page. On Tuesday, August 14, 2001, 3:49:16 PM, f.johan.beisser wrote: 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