Is there an interactive way to change date/time from commandline?

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10-13-2005, 10:58 PM	#1
Akhran Member Registered: Aug 2005 Distribution: Debian 'lenny' Posts: 208 Rep:	Is there an interactive way to change date/time from commandline? ie. is there a command that will prompt user to enter the current time and date? Thanks !

10-13-2005, 11:18 PM	#2
Bruce Hill HCL Maintainer Registered: Jun 2003 Location: McCalla, AL, USA Distribution: Arch, Gentoo Posts: 6,940 Rep:	Issue and read "man date" which is the manual page for the date command.

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