From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 30 22:10:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from luke.cpl.net (luke.cpl.net [192.216.136.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 413EA37B613 for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 22:10:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shawn@megadeth.org) Received: from shawn (shawn.megadeth.org [192.216.87.244]) by luke.cpl.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA07167; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 20:18:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <002901bffa9d$e85c3630$f457d8c0@shawn> From: "Shawn Ramsey" To: "Tyler Spivey" , References: <200007310206.TAA30221@viper.wapvi.bc.ca> Subject: Re: setting the system date Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 20:17:48 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tyler Spivey" To: Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2000 7:06 PM Subject: setting the system date > 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. Did you look under examples? But this should do what you want : date 0007301030 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message