9 Nov
2004
9 Nov
'04
6:11 p.m.
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Rob Becker wrote:
That seemed to get it. Now I need to get the date set correctly. This laptop sat for a while and the clock is wrong.
The date command lets you set the system clock from a formatted string:
date -s "Tue Nov 9 12:09:54 CST 2004"
...but that only sets the system clock. You want to put that into the hardware clock too, so you will have the correct time next time you boot:
hwclock --systohc