Name
stime — set time
Synopsis
#include <time.h>
int
stime( |
time_t * | t); |
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DESCRIPTION
stime() sets the system's
idea of the time and date. Time, pointed to by t, is measured in seconds from
00:00:00 GMT January 1, 1970. stime() may only be executed by the
superuser.
RETURN VALUE
On success, zero is returned. On error, −1 is
returned, and errno is set
appropriately.
ERRORS
- EFAULT
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Error in getting information from user space.
- EPERM
-
The calling process has insufficient privilege. Under Linux the
CAP_SYS_TIMEprivilege is required.
COLOPHON
This page is part of release 2.79 of the Linux man-pages project. A
description of the project, and information about reporting
bugs, can be found at
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
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