From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 30 14:40:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA04466 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 14:40:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uz.ComCAT.COM (uz.ComCAT.COM [204.170.64.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA04458 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 14:40:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jerryr@ComCAT.COM) Received: from uw.comcat.com (uw [204.170.64.249]) by uz.ComCAT.COM (8.8.8/8.8.8/sol2/mh/19980701) with ESMTP; id RAA14420; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 17:37:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost by uw.comcat.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/sol2/clnt/19981012) with SMTP id RAA12976 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 17:37:48 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: uw.comcat.com: jerryr owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 17:37:48 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry X-Sender: jerryr@uw To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Set date/time In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stupid mistake! I figured it out! date 9810301735 thanks though!! > no matter what I do to adjust the time it show its been changed and if I > run date at the very next command line its back the that way it was, > here's a cut and paste of my commands: > > $ date > Thu Oct 29 12:28:21 EST 1998 > $ date -v 30d > Fri Oct 30 12:29:23 EST 1998 > $ date > Thu Oct 29 12:29:29 EST 1998 > $ > > what am I doing wrong? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message