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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.

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE

stime(): SVID2, SVID3, XPG2

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