Re: sparc 20 workstation time

From: cljlk (cljlk_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/12/04 

Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 16:23:28 -0400

I issue the command as man page, the problem is the year is still in 1970.
So, I would like to know it is battery problem, should I change the clock
battery and how to change it
if I have to.

"Juhan Leemet" <juhan@logicognosis.com> wrote in message
news:pan.2004.06.12.19.53.05.912658@logicognosis.com...
> On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 15:19:14 -0400, cljlk wrote:
> > I did exactely what manual page as below
> >
> > man date
> >
> > For example:
> >
> > date 10080045
> >
> > sets the date to Oct 8, 12:45 a.m. The current
>
> Well, it's doing EXACTLY what you told it to do! Look at the man page
> again (from one of my Solaris8 systems), esp. the line:
>
> /usr/bin/date [ -u ] [ [ mmdd ] HHMM | mmddHHMM [ cc ] yy ] [.SS ]
>
> (and read the explanations down below, for each of the fields). In your
> case, you can leave out the optional "-u". You did put in the mmddHHMM,
> which is good! However, you left off the "cc" and "yy"! Those fields are
> for the (optional?) century and year. How was "date" supposed to guess
> which ones you wanted? So, putting it all together:
>
> date 100800452004
>
> would have done what you wanted to do (the famous DWIM: do what I mean?).
> You'll get the knack of reading man pages. Don't be too impatient.
>
> --
> Juhan Leemet
> Logicognosis, Inc.
>
>

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