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Re: changing the date
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, James Olin Oden wrote:
>Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
>
>> James Olin Oden <joden@lee.k12.nc.us> writes:
>>
>> > Shachar Tal wrote:
>> >
>> > > "date -s <date>"
>> > > then "clock -w"
>> > >
>> >
>> > I don't mean to be obtuse, but I have looked for man page for the clock
>> > command (date I was familiar with) and could not find one (there was one for
>> > a clock system call and one for a clock tcl call). I do have clock program
>> > in /sbin could you explain to me what it does (I am assuming it does a lot
>> > more than just set the firmware clock) or at least point me to somewhere I
>> > can read the docs for it? Thanks...james
>>
>> I don't mean to be obnoxious, but:
>>
>> man 8 clock
>>
>> "man -k clock" would help you find it.
>
>Well I tried doing:
>
> find -name "clock*" -print
>
>while in /usr/man and found only ones I did not want. I then did what you said
>(man -k) and it showed the clock entry you mentioned (clock(8)), but in
>/usr/man/man8 there is not clock entry of any kind.
Next time, try this:
find $MANPATH -name "clock*" -print
Peter