Date & time

[Allen Meyers]

The following appeared this AM as a means of setting time and date and
I was wondering if someone on the list might translate for those of us
who have difficulty with understanding a line like date +%Y%m%d -s
"20090502"
or date +%T -s "11:14:00". Quite simply how to set date and time so a
challenged Texan can understand. Plus it might bring comic relief to
the French troublemaker thread and give Karl time to reflect..

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date +%Y%m%d -s "20090502"

To set the time in Linux, enter

date +%T -s "11:14:00"

There are simple ways to set the date and time, here is one.

date -s "2 MAY 2009 11:14:00"

or

date 05021118

The format is

date MMDDhhmm

Allen Meyers
texas.chef94 at gmail.com