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

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

NAME         top

       stime - set time

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <time.h>
       int stime(const time_t *t);
   Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
       stime():
           Since glibc 2.19:
               _DEFAULT_SOURCE
           Glibc 2.19 and earlier:
               _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 be executed only 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                            2016-03-15                         STIME(2)

Pages that refer to this page: syscalls(2),  rtc(4),  capabilities(7)