> > 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 :) it must have gotten a lot better than when I started using Linux (RH 5.1). I never figured out how to set the date, based on the man page. kept giving me errors, no matter what I tried. so I learned to use rdate. :) (I have since been able to set the date by hand). Carl Soderstrom -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises (952) 943-8700