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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