From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 30 22:36:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from viper.wapvi.bc.ca (a3a31612.sympatico.bconnected.net [209.53.12.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B4EE37B730 for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 22:36:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tyler@wapvi.bc.ca) Received: (from tyler@localhost) by viper.wapvi.bc.ca (8.9.1/8.9.1) id WAA31557; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 22:36:10 -0700 Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 22:36:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Tyler Spivey To: Dima Dorfman Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: setting the system date In-Reply-To: <20000731022515.33BCE1F17@static.unixfreak.org> 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 i like linux date better On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Dima Dorfman wrote: > > 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