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).
Security Restrictions
Some or all of the actions associated with this system call require the
SYSATTR
privilege.
Processes owned by the superuser will have this privilege.
Processes owned by other users may have this privilege, depending on system
configuration.
See
privileges(5)
for more information about privileged access on
systems that support fine-grained privileges.
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 calling process does not have the
SYSATTR
privilege.
- EINVAL
The
tp
parameter points to an invalid (negative) time value.
- EFAULT
The
tp
parameter is an invalid address.
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
stime(): SVID2, SVID3, XPG2
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