On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 03:39:25PM -0500, Simeon Johnston wrote:
> Jim Crumley wrote:
>
> > For umn, try:
> > ns.nts.umn.edu
> > nss.nts.umn.edu
>
> These work very well. I've been syncing with them for about a year now from
> work. A simple cron script.
Why not ntpd?
> Question - How do you set the time manually? I know the command "date -s ......"
rdate -s
> but can never get the number order correct.
> How is it done? The man page is crap when it comes to setting the time IMO.....
No, it's not:
OpenBSD 2.9:
date [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t minutes_west] [-nu] [+format]
[[[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[.SS]]
Linux:
date [-u|--utc|--universal] [MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]]
It just doesn't read itself aloud :)
florin
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