Starting and stopping the system

Setting the time and date at startup

Once normal operation starts, the system asks for the correct time and date:

   INIT: New run level: 2
   
   Current System Time is Tue Nov  9 23:26:54 1999
   Enter new time ([[CC]YYMMDD]hhmm[.ss]):

Unless your clock battery is drained or removed, there should be no need to change the date. To leave the time and date unchanged, simply press <Enter>. If you need to change the time and date, enter the new time and press <Enter>. The new values must be entered as two or more consecutive sets of digits, where the digits can be one or more of:

ccyy (optional): represents the year (the current year is the default). It can be entered as a 4-digit value to explicitly specify the century or as a 2-digit value, where the range 69-99 refers to years in the twentieth century (1969 to 1999 inclusive) and values in the range 00-68 refer to years in the twenty-first century (2000 to 2068 inclusive).
mm (optional): represents the current month. It can be any two-digit value, from 01 to 12 for January to December, respectively.
dd (optional): represents the current day. It can be any two-digit value, from 01 to the last day of the month.
hh: represents the current hour. It can be any two-digit value, from 00 to 23. Hours are expressed in the 24-hour format, in which morning hours range from 00 to 11 and evening hours from 12 to 23.
mm: represents the current minutes. It can be any two-digit value, from 00 to 59.
ss (optional): represents the current seconds. It can be any two-digit value, from 00 to 59.

For example, to change the time and date to 3 February 1995 at noon, enter:

9502031200

After accepting the new value, the system then displays the new time and date:

   Sun Feb 03 12:00:00 PST 1995

If you enter an incorrect value, the system prompts you to try again. If you do not enter an optional value, the current value for that item remains unchanged. If you type a new value for the year, you must also type values for the month and day. Similarly, if you type a new value for the month, you must type a value for the day.

The time and date display is followed by service startup messages and the login: message.