STIME(2) Linux Programmer's Manual STIME(2)

NAME
       stime - set time

SYNOPSIS
       #include 

       int stime(timet *t);

   Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see featuretestmacros(7)):

       stime(): SVIDSOURCE

DESCRIPTION
       stime() sets the system's idea of the time and date.  The time, pointed
       to by t, is measured in seconds since the  Epoch,  1970-01-01  00:00:00
       +0000 (UTC).  stime() may be executed only by the superuser.

RETURN VALUE
       On  success,  zero is returned.  On error, -1 is returned, and errno is
       set appropriately.

ERRORS
       EFAULT Error in getting information from user space.

       EPERM  The calling process has insufficient privilege.  Under Linux the
              CAPSYSTIME privilege is required.

CONFORMING TO
       SVr4.

SEE ALSO
       date(1), settimeofday(2), capabilities(7)

COLOPHON
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       description of the project, and information about reporting  bugs,  can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.



Linux                             2010-02-25                          STIME(2)