NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUE | ERRORS | CONFORMING TO | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON

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

NAME         top

       stime - set time

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <time.h>

       int stime(time_t *t);

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

       stime(): _SVID_SOURCE

DESCRIPTION         top

       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 only be executed by the superuser.

RETURN VALUE         top

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

ERRORS         top

       EFAULT Error in getting information from user space.

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

CONFORMING TO         top

       SVr4.

SEE ALSO         top

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

COLOPHON         top

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Linux                                 2010-02-25                             STIME(2)

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