NAME

stime − set time and date

SYNOPSIS

int stime (tp)
long ∗tp;

DESCRIPTION

Stime sets the system’s idea of the time and date.  Tp points to the value of time as measured in seconds from 00:00:00 GMT January 1, 1970. 

RETURN VALUE

Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned.  Otherwise, a value of −1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the error. 

ERRORS

[EPERM] Stime will fail if the effective user ID of the calling process is not super-user. 

DEPENDENCIES

HP Clustered Environment
On systems that are members of a cluster, setting the time sets the time and date on all systems in the cluster.

SEE ALSO

date(1), gettimeofday(2), time(2). 

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE

stime: SVID2, XPG2

Hewlett-Packard Company  —  HP-UX Release 7.0: Sept 1989