NAME

stime − set time

SYNOPSIS

#include <unistd.h>

int stime(const time_t ∗tp);

DESCRIPTION

stime sets the system’s idea of the time and date.  tp points to the value of time as measured in seconds from 00:00:00 UTC January 1, 1970. 

stime will fail if:

EPERM the effective user ID of the calling process is not super-user

ERANGE the value of time pointed to is out of range. 

SEE ALSO

time(2)

DIAGNOSTICS

Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned.  Otherwise, a value of −1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the error.