[SPAM] Re: backing up symlinks

[Duane Attaway]

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