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 -- "If it's not broken, is because you are not fixing it enough." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4