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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers UNIX Dates Post 302167461 by jim mcnamara on Thursday 14th of February 2008 01:22:03 PM
Old 02-14-2008
No, you probably don't want to set the system time to any arbitrary value. Even with your own desktop, it may cause problems you will not anticipate.


From what I gather from what you said, all you need to do is use touch -t <file>:
Code:
# assuming tomorrow is feb 15 2008 at 1200

# if myfile doesn't exist touch wil create an empty file for you
touch -t 200802151200 myfile

Now the file has tomoorow's date.
 

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conjunct

CONJUNCT(1)						      General Commands Manual						       CONJUNCT(1)

NAME

       conjunct - find dates of equinox or new or full moon

SYNOPSIS

       conjunct [options]

DESCRIPTION

       conjunct  searches  for	one of these events: spring equinox (default), summer solstice, autumn equinox, winter solstice, new moon, or full
       moon.

OPTIONS

       -s, --start date
	      Set starting date (default is current date).  The date may be either a Julian day number (e.g. 2454180.0 for noon, 2007 March 20) or
	      an ISO 8601 date (e.g. 2007-03-20).

       -e, --end date
	      Set ending date (default is one year from now).

       -V, --vernal, --spring
	      Search for spring equinox (default).

       -S, --summer
	      Search for summer solstice.

       -A, --autumn, --fall
	      Search for autumn equinox.

       -W, --winter
	      Search for winter solstice.

       -N, --newmoon
	      Search for new moon.

       -F, --fullmoon
	      Search for full moon.

       -h, --help
	      Show summary of options.

SEE ALSO

       aa(1).

AUTHOR

       conjunct was written by Stephen L. Moshier <steve@moshier.net>.

       This manual page was written by James R. Van Zandt <jrv@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								  August 24, 2006						       CONJUNCT(1)
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