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Old 09-30-2008
Grippo Grippo is offline
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Originally Posted by komala View Post
Hi,

Could you please let me know the command to change my date /time beyond few days back. Currently when i am trying the below commands able to go beyond one day at max.

-->date
-->Mon Sep 29 19:31:58 EST 2008
-->export TZ=TMP40:00:00 (Changing the date beyond 40 hours)
-->Sun Sep 28 09:32:24 TMP 2008 (date changed back upto 34 Hours, even though i mentioned above as 40 hours)
-->export TZ=TMP90:00:00 (Changing the date beyond 90 hours)
-->Sun Sep 28 09:32:42 TMP 2008 (date changed back upto 34 Hours, even though i mentioned above as 90 hours).

So looking for date change command in linux (Linux melrhtest4.nmh-au 2.6.18-8.el5 #1 SMP Fri Jan 26 14:15:14 EST 2007 x86_64).

Thanks.
Be careful when taking time backwards on UNIX servers. The timestamps are all absolute for the beginning of the epoch (number of seconds since 1970).

the system can get into a mess by doign this because it can take a look at a file and find that it has now been created in the future!

Why do you need to wind the clock back? - unless, of course, it is to bypass licensing issues?