Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!hpcc05!hpcuhb!hpda!hpcuhc!rags From: rags@hpcuhc.cup.hp.com (Balakrishna Raghunath) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: SCO 'date' Message-ID: <112660001@hpcuhc.cup.hp.com> Date: 21 Nov 90 17:04:45 GMT References: <893@stewart.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino Lines: 6 You are right.... I have seen this problem and reported this bug to SCO. God knows when they will fix this. A safe way to set the time is to use the script asktime (which directly writes to the cmos clock driver). apparently date uses the stime() system call which may be broken.. rags