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Subject: Re: time setting
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>I have a freebsd machine, where I want to advance its current time so that
>it shows correct time. Is there a command to do it (as a root)?

Check out "man date".  You can set it either by entering the entire correct
date, or by entering a +/- value for each of the fields (month, day, year,
hours, minutes, seconds, etc).

--John


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