Bug 9126 - rdate requires -s
Summary: rdate requires -s
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: rdate
Version: 6.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Crutcher Dunnavant
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Reported: 2000-02-04 16:36 UTC by Karl Berry
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-02-04 19:08:15 UTC
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Description Karl Berry 2000-02-04 16:36:19 UTC 
unlike every other unix, linux rdate requires -s to
set the date.  argh.

thanks.
Comment 1 Elliot Lee 2000-02-04 19:08:59 UTC 
I think this is a matter of preference, and there's no compelling reason to make
the change. I know at least a few times, I have been happy to be able to run
rdate without setting the system clock, so I could check the time on a system I
didn't have root on.
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