Date & time

[Allen Meyers]

On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Thorny <thorntreehome at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 03 May 2009 04:31:14 -0600, Allen Meyers posted:
>
>> 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..
>>
>> <!--break-->
>>
>> 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
>
> Allen,
> I don't have much time today and I came later than usual but I did notice
> your email and I don't understand why no one has answered you yet, I'm
> sure I'm not the only one around here that has an answer.
>
> The string values are defined in the manual page for the date command
> and/or online from a search engine with "strftime" and "format" as
> keywords. No sense in reproducing those definitions here in the text of
> this email. You could also get them in the manual page for strftime.
>
> To give an example: date -s +%T "11:14:00"
>
> The command is "date".
> The option is "-s" (which stands for "set"). The format is "+%T" (%T
> stands for the time in 24-hour notation (%H:%M:%S))
>
> Thus the command would set the time to 11:14:00 am.
>
>
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Thorny:
Thanks its what I needed to know

Allen