NAME

stime() − set time and date

SYNOPSIS

#include <time.h>

int stime(const time_t *tp);

DESCRIPTION

The stime() system call sets the system time and date.  tp points to the value of time as measured in seconds from 00:00:00 on January 1, 1970, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). 

RETURN VALUE

stime() returns the following values:

 0 Successful completion. 

-1 Failure.  errno is set to indicate the error. 

ERRORS

If stime() fails, errno is set to one of the following values. 

[EPERM] The effective user ID of the calling process is not superuser. 

SEE ALSO

date(1), gettimeofday(2), time(2). 

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE

stime(): SVID2, SVID3, XPG2

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