Fabric OS Reference Manual

Telnet Commands 55
date
Display or set system date and time.
Synopsis
date ["newDate"]
Availability All users (display)
admin (set)
Description Use this command with no operands to display date and time. Use the
newdate
operand to set the date and time. Date and time are specified as a
quoted string in the format:
"mmddhhmmyy"
where:
mm is the month, valid values are 01-12
dd is the date, valid values are 01-31
hh is the hour, valid values are 00-23
mm is minutes, valid values are 00-59
yy is the year, valid values are 00-99
Year values greater than 69 are interpreted as 1970-1999, year values less
than 70 are interpreted as 2000-2069.
The date function does not support daylight saving time or time zones.
All switches maintain current date and time in non-volatile memory. Date
and time are used for logging events. Switch operation does not depend on
the date and time; a switch with an incorrect date value still functions
properly.
Operands This command has the following operand:
newDate
Specify the new date and time in quotation marks. This
operand is optional.