how set system time by command prompt?

yenonn · 08-23-2003, 03:48 AM

how to set a system date using a command prompt?
let say i wan to set the system to be 2003, July, 05, 10:10... how?

kev82 · 08-23-2003, 04:09 AM

you can do it with the date command, forgotten the argument though so you'll have to look in the man page.

man date

Mega Man X · 08-23-2003, 04:55 AM

for 2003, July, 05, 10:10

that should be:

date 070510102003

which means mm,dd,time,year

yenonn · 08-23-2003, 08:49 AM

okie... thanks... for help

nadine.mauch · 08-23-2003, 09:00 AM

I use the command date -s
Example : to set date to the 21st august 2003
date -s 210803 +DDMMYY
^-------------^
format
date -s 1535 +HHMM sets time to 15:35

yenonn · 08-24-2003, 06:41 PM

then, how to display the two digits of the year?

yenonn · 08-24-2003, 06:48 PM

date +%Y will yield me a string 2003... if i want to display 03, then how?

MasterC · 08-24-2003, 06:48 PM

I prefer NTP, or it's sister NTPdate. Works great! Check out www.ntp.org

Cool

nadine.mauch · 08-25-2003, 02:53 AM

To display the last two digits of the current year
date +%y

(y lowercase=last two digits, Y uppercase=full year)

yenonn · 08-25-2003, 06:40 PM

oh....okie.... thanks for ur help