Self importance of ULnix

So I need to clear the Russian-flag virus off the DOS-fd0s of an old portable box, which I'm giving to someone to be able to Tx-Rx files by phone to-from me.

Since my version of the anti-virus reports "too old", I just set the DATE back 2 years. So since I forgot to reset easily done under DOS by just manually copying the reportred 'date' and replacing "04" with "06" after I boot into linux - an annoyingly slow task what about energy conservation instead of having 24-7 for 2-7 usage ?, my mc sort by recency is crap.

So, in linux I try to reset the date. man date, date -?, date --help .....etc., what a load of poo!

Why can't they just give the obvious essentials FIRST ! Self important ? date --set 06-10-06 == OK.

PS. after 10 years occasional linux usage & at least 5 different name-installations, each which is more absurd, bloated Win-apeing, I've NEVER seriously run as NON-root, because I never get a chance to 'settle down' out of bleeding-edge-research mode. This because you have to do major research just to find out how to set the time. Developers don't respect other people's time ?!

== Chris Glur