topic Re: time in Operating System - HP-UX

time

Jeff Hagstrom — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 23:09:53 GMT

RP7410 HPUX 11.i.
How do you set the time?

Re: time

SANTOSH S. MHASKAR — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 00:56:53 GMT

U can set time using command date, see
only root can do this job.
# man date

the onether option is to use command
# set_parms date_time

be cautious while setting time of the system.
espacially while redicing the value.
Also stop cron daemon before setting time and
start it after u finish.

-Santosh

Re: time

Anshumali — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 21:18:39 GMT

set_parms date_time
Press n
Enter last two digits of the year (00-99)
enter the month (1-12)
date of the month (1-31)
enter the hour (using 24 hour time) (0-23)
enter the minute (0-59)
Verify the time
Press Y

or

Do a man date and modify accordingly.

or

Open SAM
Open time
Go to System Clock
Enter time/date/month/year
Press OK

---Have a look at your cron before you increase or decrease the time. Cron behaves differently in each situation.If you increase the time past the missed schedule, cron will attempt to catch up the schedule. If you decrease time, cron wont fire the entry till the mentioned time comes.

Re: time

Hein van den Heuvel — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 21:24:59 GMT

Jeff,

I'm curious... why do you have to set the time?

Did your system per chance decide to do a Daylight Savings 1 hour adjust?

In that case, perhaps you need to make sure the right new DST rules are in place, rather then tweaking tweaking the hands on the dial. Google: +hpux +dst

fwiw,
Hein.

Re: time

Khashru — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 23:33:41 GMT

You can change time by date command or set_parms option. But why you need to change time?

Re: time

Reshma Malusare — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 02:27:00 GMT

Hi Jeff,
You can change time with date command and also by set_parms option. While doing this check that you have administrative rights i.e you are super user.

Re: time

Ashish Parashar — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 17:33:26 GMT

Hi Jeff

Use date command with following syntex:-

date [-u] mmddhhmm[yy]

HP-UX sets system clock to the date and time specified, Requires super-user privilege.If -u option is given, the specified date and time is assumed to be Universal Time. The numeric argument is interpreted mm Month number. dd Day number in the month.
hh Hour number (24 hour system). mm Minute number.

yy (optional) Last 2 digits of the
year number.

Regards

Ashish

Re: time

Raj D. — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:01:22 GMT

Jeff,

set_parms and date can be use to change the date,

Use # set_parms date_time
And you can change it.

Cheers,
Raj.