Thanks, that's a bit less combersum. Guess date is still a mystery even to non-newbies (grin). Greg On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 04:29:50PM -0400, Jacob Schmude wrote: > Hi > Actually, there is a way to do it separately. Use the s switch to date. The format is: > date -s year-mm-dd > to set the date. Taking your provided example, it would look like: > date -s 2003-10-06 > After that, you set the time in 24-hour format like this: > date -s hh:mm:ss > Again, taking your example, you would use: > date -s 14:40 > Note that specifying the seconds is not necessary, but you can if you want. I've often found this easier than combining the two, especially when I only need > to set one of them. > HTH -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org
