yep, TMI (Too Much Info) ;-) thanks a bunch Where else can you get 100 replies in various technical states to a simple question??? you guys blow me away.......... I have posted a few replies to questions, but nothing like this. I hope someday I can help more people like they have helped me.... Don Dupy Systems Administrator Maxxrad PC Services http://www.maxxrad.net email: fedora@xxxxxxxxxxx On Sat, 29 May 2004, Andrew Robinson wrote: > Don Dupy wrote: > > does anyone know a simple way to change the time and date > > on a FC1 machine in command line mode > > I don't have a gui installed > > > > I don't quite understand the "date" command options > > > > Yeah, reading the date man page is more difficult than using the > command. To set the time on your machine, _as_root_, enter something like: > > date 05291542 > > That breaks down to May 29 at 3:42 pm. If you need to set the year, the > man page seems to say append it to the end: > > date 052915422004 > > That's different than I remember from other unices, but so it goes. To > check the results of the command, just enter > > date > > Most of the other stuff in the man page deals with controlling the > format of how date outputs the current time and date. This is very > useful if you are writing scripts and need to include time and/or date > in the output. For example, you could put a time stamp on a list of > items with something like > > date +"%Y%m%d%H%M%S" > > to get "20040529154225". That would insure that the items would sort > chronologically with the Linux sort command. But I've already told you > more than you wanted to know... > > Hope this helps. > > Andrew Robinson > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
