topic Re: Setting the Date in Operating System - HP-UX

Setting the Date

Kal Lee — Thu, 12 Apr 2001 20:37:30 GMT

Under 10.20 the date command allows only the user to input hours, minutes but not seconds. Is there another command that would allow for the seconds to be used?

Thanks.

Re: Setting the Date

Rob Smith — Thu, 12 Apr 2001 20:40:48 GMT

I think that you can do it down to the second through SAM. Hope this helps.

Rob

Re: Setting the Date

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 12 Apr 2001 20:44:04 GMT

Hi:

There is no command in 10.20 (of which I'm aware) to include the seconds in a time reset.

In 11.x, 'date' has an additonal option to slew the clock +- some number of seconds. The syntax is:

# date -a [-]sss[.fff]

where 'fff' represents fractions of a second.

How's that for moving from "no precision" to great precision! ;-)

...JRF...
...JRF...

Re: Setting the Date

Vincenzo Restuccia — Fri, 13 Apr 2001 08:19:42 GMT

Workaround is cp -p date of 11.00 in /usr/contrib/bin of 10.20 and you have the seconds.

Re: Setting the Date

Antero Airola — Tue, 17 Apr 2001 05:10:56 GMT

If you really need precise system time why not use network time service (xntpd) and let the system take care of the seconds automatically.
You can find xntp in SAM under "time"