Stuck in the future!!!!

[tman138]

This is odd. I have an old HP9000 E-55 machine that I use for testing and I noticed that the clock was about 12 minutes slow. So I reset it using the folooing syntax:
date 05101615 2005
Wham!
now my date says
Sun May 10 16:15:10 UTC 2020
So I thought it was picking up the 20 in 2005 as the 2 digit year so I tried setting it back
date -u 05101616 05
I got do you really want to run time backwards? and replied yes
and I get
Sun May 10 16:16:00 UTC 2020

I can't get out of 2020!!!

I've reviewed the manual entry for date, but to no avail.
Any thoughts?

 

[hoinz]

Hi,
I prefer not to try myself, but two ideas:

My 'man date' says nothing about a blank next to the year.
Did you try without it?

Does your 'man date' explicitely mention a 'cc' for century?
If not, your system may be not Y2K compliant, and you may be out of luck.

regards

 

[new2me]

try... set_parms date

 

[tman138]

Sorry; I got it. My syntax was wrong needed to be:
date 05101203002005

 

[KenCunningham]

Dr Who obviously has nothing on you as a time traveller! ;-)