Thanks for your comments.

Anyway, note that the time setting through the POSIX is described in the
'man' page.

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        Noam Koren
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Bixby [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 6:39 PM
To: Noam Koren
Cc: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Setting date on the POSIX shell




Noam Koren wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I have this problem when I'm trying to set the date in my 3000.
> as manager.sys:
> First I set the date and time and timezone from the MPE prompt. This works
> fine.
>
> Then I switch to the shell in order to set the time there also:
> :sh
> sh/ix>BOND:/SYS/PUB $date 2000051815338
> date: no permission to set date
> sh/ix>
>
> Any idea how to set the time on the POSIX side?

The POSIX shell and all POSIX programs determine time by starting with the
UTC
(aka GMT) time specified by the ISL CLKUTIL program, and then applying the
timezone specified by the TZ environment variable.

There is no separate POSIX clock, and on MPE, the POSIX date command does
not
change the system time like it would on a Unix system.

- Mark B.