Re: Date - setting clock

Tom Oehser <[email protected]> Tue, 21 Oct 2003 10:46:39 -0400 (EDT)

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> Subject: [tomsrtbt] Date - setting clock
>
> I apologize if this is another stupid question like my last (hmm
> fdformat whodathunk?)
>
> date -s mmddhhmmccyy  does not seem to set the date....
> date    mmddhhmmccyy  wont either...
>
> works on other linux machines?
> what am i doin wrong?

I think -s wants it in this format:

Tue Oct 21 10:46:16 EDT 2003

-Tom