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



NAME
       stime - set time

SYNOPSIS
       #include <time.h>

       int stime(time_t *t);

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

       stime(): _SVID_SOURCE

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 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 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
       SVr4.

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

COLOPHON
       This page is part of release 3.25 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/.



Linux                                                      2010-02-25                                                   STIME(2)