Setting the Date

[Kal Lee]

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.

[Rob Smith]

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

Rob

[James R. Ferguson]

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...

[Vincenzo Restuccia · Accepted solution]

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

[Antero Airola]

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"