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Reply-To: "Mike Oligny" <moligny@kanotech.com>
From: "Mike Oligny" <moligny@kanotech.com>
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	"Mauricio Marquez" <mmarquez@enlace.net>
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Subject: Re: setting the time/clock
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 12:20:52 -0600
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Hi, Mauricio...

Use 'ntpdate' to synchronize your clock to an external source, or...  try
reading the 'date' man page -- there are some examples towards the end.

Here is one of them:

 The command:

       date 8506131627

 sets the date to ``June 13, 1985, 4:27 PM''.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mauricio Marquez" <mmarquez@enlace.net>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2001 12:48 PM
Subject: setting the time/clock


>
> how do i set the correct time on FreeBSD? i have set the time zone to
> central time but it still displays a wrong time.
>
> thanks,
>
> Mauricio
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