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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers setting the system date Post 302296821 by Corona688 on Wednesday 11th of March 2009 11:39:18 PM
Old 03-12-2009
The manpage for GNU date seems straightforward enough:
Code:
DATE(1)                          User Commands                         DATE(1)



NAME
       date - print or set the system date and time

SYNOPSIS
       date [OPTION]... [+FORMAT]
       date [-u|--utc|--universal] [MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]]

DESCRIPTION
       Display the current time in the given FORMAT, or set the system date.

...

Though it does not mention the '+2 minutes' thing either. The GNU tools are occasionally evangelical about telling you to use their special fancy 'info' command instead of old-fashioned 'man' -- really old fashioned, dating from the late 70's! A habit I find detestable considering how little an improvement the 'info' system really seems to be on it. If they want sections and hyperlinks they should just do real HTML, bundle lynx, and be done with it.
Last edited by Corona688; 03-12-2009 at 12:46 AM..
 

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wiki-toolkit-revert-to-date

WIKI-TOOLKIT-REVERT-TO-DATE(1p) 			User Contributed Perl Documentation			   WIKI-TOOLKIT-REVERT-TO-DATE(1p)

NAME

       wiki-toolkit-revert-to-date - Revert the state of a Wiki::Toolkit instance to an earlier point in time.

SYNOPSIS

	 # Removes any changes made to a Wiki::Toolkit instance since a given date
	 #  (and optionally time), restoring it to the state at that point.

	 wiki-toolkit-revert-to-date --type postgres
		  --name mywiki 
		  --user wiki  
		  --pass wiki 
		  --host 'db.example.com' 
		  --port 1234 
		  --date 2007-01-05 
		  --time 11:23:21

DESCRIPTION

       Takes three mandatory arguments:

       type
	   The database type.  Should be one of 'postgres', 'mysql' and 'sqlite'.

       name
	   The database name.

       date
	   The date to revert the state back to, in the format YYYY-MM-DD

       five optional arguments:

       time
	   The time (on the specified date) to revert the state back to, in the format hh:mm:ss. If not specified, will use midnight.

       user
	   The user that connects to the database. It must have permission to create and drop tables in the database.

       pass
	   The user's database password.

       host
	   The hostname of the machine the database server is running on (omit for local databases).

       port
	   The port number that the database server is expecting connections to.

AUTHOR

       Nick Burch

COPYRIGHT

	    Copyright (C) 2006 Nick Burch.  All Rights Reserved.

       This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

       Wiki::Toolkit

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