Re: date command .......

[Ron Farrer <rbf@toxic.magnesium.net>]

a.bottemanne@nl.ibm.com (a.bottemanne@nl.ibm.com) wrote:

> After reading both the manual pages and the --help, it still puzzles me....
> My system thinks she lives in 2019 !   That does give me a good feeling
> because it runs, so no worries for me the 31st of December  : - )
> Does anybody know how to use the date -s (or date --set=......) command ?
> I would like the date to be the actual.
> The BIOS/Firmware date is the current (=correct) one.......

I had this problem a few weeks ago when I forgot to say yes to 'Enhanced Real Time Clock' in the kernel configuration (make config). You might want to check and make sure that was enabled in your kernel.


HTH,

Ron
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