need help on cron commands.

["neal hamilton" <nealhamiltonjr@yahoo.com>]

I need to have cron change the date on a test server. Just for testing I
tried the following: which I expected to change the date every 5 min.

I used vi to edit the /etc/crontab file as I was told to put it here to
make it permanent and reload upon booting.

 # cat /etc/crontab
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
HOME=/

# run-parts
01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly

###### Here is what I have tried######

5 * * * * root /bin/date -s 2002-04-16

*5 * * * * root /bin/date -s 2002-04-16

I wanted to have the cron daemon, every 5 minutes to reset the date on
the server to apr-16-2002. After I edit the /etc/crontab file I do load
it via
Crontab /etc/crontab.... then check it via crontab -l

#crontab -l 

# run-parts
01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly

5 * * * * root /bin/date -s 2002-04-16

*5 * * * * root /bin/date -s 2002-04-16

I still cannot get it to work. The above is just a test but my goal is
to have a cron job reset the date every sun @ say maybe 12:00:am.

Any help would be appreciated. I have verified the daemon is running


Ps -aucx | more shows it running

root       697  0.0  0.3  1652  760 ?        S     2001   0:00 crond