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stime

stime(2)							System Calls Manual							  stime(2)

NAME

       stime() - set time and date

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

       The  system  call  sets	the system time and date.  tp points to the value of time as measured in seconds from 00:00:00 on January 1, 1970,
       Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

   Security Restrictions
       Some or all of the actions associated with this system call require the privilege.  Processes owned by the superuser will have this  privi-
       lege.   Processes  owned by other users may have this privilege, depending on system configuration.  See privileges(5) for more information
       about privileged access on systems that support fine-grained privileges.

RETURN VALUE

       returns the following values:

	      Successful completion.
	      Failure.
		     is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS

       If fails, is set to one of the following values.

	      The calling process does not have the
			     privilege.

	      The	     parameter points to an invalid (negative) time value.

	      The	     parameter is an invalid address.

SEE ALSO

       date(1), gettimeofday(2), time(2), privileges(5).

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE

																	  stime(2)

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