From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 20 19:57:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nebula.nift.net (unknown [207.212.29.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF880153C6 for ; Sat, 20 Mar 1999 19:57:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from druid@eoe-magical.org) Received: from eoe-magical.org ([207.212.29.157]) by nebula.nift.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA01197; Sat, 20 Mar 1999 23:27:55 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <36F40DF7.B14CB307@eoe-magical.org> Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 21:07:03 +0000 From: Donald X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Gray Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: date function References: <36F40095.D8243882@eoe-magical.org> <19990320191429.52220@cm110119.cableco-op.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG thanks to all who helped on this I was typing in a similar string but it would not take it, then after you info I did not add the .ss for seconds and it worked ok. Jeff Gray wrote: > As root try > date 9903202100 > > this, on my system, would output 21:00 PST > I set the timezone during install. > > Jeff > > On Sat, Mar 20, 1999 at 08:09:57PM +0000, Donald wrote: > > I have read the man pages and tried to reset the date and time > > on the box, but keep getting illegal statement > > say its 3/20/99 at 19:10.00pm can someone send me a string > > that will work correctly.? > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message