From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 30 19:25:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from static.unixfreak.org (static.unixfreak.org [63.198.170.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79FC137B93A for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 19:25:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dima@static.unixfreak.org) Received: by static.unixfreak.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 33BCE1F17; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 19:25:15 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: setting the system date In-Reply-To: <200007310206.TAA30221@viper.wapvi.bc.ca> from Tyler Spivey at "Jul 30, 2000 07:06:17 pm" To: Tyler Spivey Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 19:25:15 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Dima Dorfman X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20000731022515.33BCE1F17@static.unixfreak.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > my cmos batteries dead, but: > how d i set the date? can you specify year 2000? can you > give me an example? man date is wierd. "date 20000730192400" should work (2000/07/30 19:24:00). May I ask what's so weird about the date(1) man page? It seems perfectly clear to me. Hope this helps Dima > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Dima Dorfman - Enriched/HTML messages > /dev/null PGP Fingerprint: CC 2A DD 54 12 85 7D 8B B3 CE B3 10 9C BE D5 69 Finger dima@unixfreak.org for public PGP key. "To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains." -- Mary Poole To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message