On 10/23/05, Simo Kauppi <swk@nic.fi> wrote:
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 12:55:20PM +0200, Joachim Fahnenmüller wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I want to set the date using date --set .
> The man page says --set=STRING but does not tell the format.
> What must STRING be if I want e. g. Oct 23 2005, 12:54 h?
try:
$date -s 0510231254
Meni
>
> THX
> --
> Joachim Fahnenmüller
For example:
date --set="10/23/05 12:54:00"
There are many different possibilities for the STRING. See info
coreutils (27 Date input formats) for details.
Simo
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