On 16 Apr 2004 08:58:25 +0200, Hinnerk Hagenah
<hg@lft.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:

>Hi,
>I have a problem with one of our HPUX-boxes. I need to set time and
>date but whenever I try I get the following result:
>
>[~]# date 0416085404
>date: do you really want to run time backwards?[yes/no]yes
>date: no permission

Did you try using "-u"?
(month=mm, day=dd, hour=hh, minute=mm, year=yy):
date -u mmddhhmmyy


Doug

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