[question] how to set the date using busybox

[piotr.lewicki]

Thank you  for your response.

It turns out that it also does not work.

Luckily I found the reason and it was "timedatectl set-ntp true" that 
was blocking the new date. Fixed with "timedatectl set-ntp false".

(oh Lenny...)


Sorry for spamming,

Thanks,

Piotr Lewicki

On 15.08.2016 12:02, walter harms wrote:
> Does it work for you if you do not use the epoch but the "normal"
> date format MMDDhhmmCCYY ?
>
>
> re,
>   wh
>
> Am 15.08.2016 11:22, schrieb piotr.lewicki:
>> Hello,
>> I'm using busybox v1.24.1 and I have a problem with setting the date
>> using date command.
>> Normally it should work with:
>>
>> date -s @'1271251273'
>>
>> with -s for setting, and the date format in seconds from epoch (one you
>> can get with "date +%s")
>>
>> The command above is returning the proper date (in this case Wed Apr 14
>> 13:21:13 UTC 2010) but it does not set the new date, i.e. next execution
>> of "date" is displaying the old date.
>>
>> I'm 100% sure that this was working with busybox 1.18.5 because I'm
>> using that on the other board.
>>
>> Is this possible that I have found a bug?
>>
>> Let me know how to set the date using seconds from epoch.
>>
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Piotr Lewicki
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