Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 19:27:43 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Rick Knebel <rknebel@uplink.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: date setting Message-ID: <394ED69F.3F60B9D@3-cities.com> References: <p04320400b5747d0486f8@[192.168.1.2]>
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Rick Knebel wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that my date was wrong in FreeBSD it said it was May 30.
> i checked my bios and that is what it says there to.
> I can change the number 30 to 19 but then my day of the week also changes?
I have found that you really have to use something like the following
from "man date"
The command:
date 8506131627
sets the date to ``June 13, 1985, 4:27 PM''.
What I do most of the time is use rdate to keep it current.
Kent
>
> Is there any way around this ..
> Thanks
> Rick
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