Time and Date
Andrew Robinson
awrobinson at cox.net
Sat May 29 19:18:09 UTC 2004
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
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