setting the system date

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From: Thomas C Hampton
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 05:28

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Howdy There again!

I cannot seem to set the system date successfully.  I can run date
without any problem, but when I shutdown -r now.  Upon reboot the date
comes back wrong!  The date actually comes back to what it was before
I changed it.  I have done the following:

rm /etc/localtime; 
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Central localtime
date 9301122231.00

...

Date then reports the set time and the syslog shows the entry, but
after shutdown and reboot the date comes back as what it was before I
did the date set.

Thanks for any help.
--
Tom C Hampton			    College of Engineering
Kansas State University		      Compter Science
NASA Mobile Robotics Research Group   Electrical and Computer Engineering
  "I love Calculus, I just wish I understood it!" --My wife

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From: tch@cis.ksu.edu (Thomas C Hampton )
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Subject: setting the system date
Date: 13 Jan 93 05:28:35 GMT
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