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After daylight savings time my clock went ahead two hours instead of one and i must set it back one. I realized i don't even know how to set the time in slackware I did some research and apparently you can do it with date command but i couldnt get the syntax right. I tried date %l and the respective number one less than the current hour, and apparently thats not correct. Any help?
Well for anyone else who might be wondering what to do, you use the -set flag on date and then type in the corresponding time while logged in as su. The current time before changing was 2:14 in the afternoon, so i typed the following command while logged in as su.
date -set 13:14 which took care of it. Not sure what %l really is for but its not this. Thanks for the help.
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I did some research and apparently you can do it with date command but i couldnt get the syntax right. I tried date %l and the respective number one less than the current hour, and apparently thats not correct. Any help?
