From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 19 19:30:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (mail.dohboys.com [208.26.253.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 495BA37B75C for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 19:30:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (unverified [208.26.242.199]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.2.2) with ESMTP id ; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 19:28:18 -0700 Message-ID: <394ED69F.3F60B9D@3-cities.com> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 19:27:43 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: BOSSig (BOSS Internet Group) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rick Knebel Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: date setting References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > -- > Rick Knebel > rknebel@uplink.net > http://rknebel.uplink.net/~rknebel > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message