How To Change The Date And Time From The Console

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Submitted by estrellagalicia (Contact Author) (Forums) on Mon, 2010-07-19 19:20. :: Linux

How To Change The Date And Time From The Console

This short tutorial explains how you can modify your system date and time from the console.

To change the date on Linux from the console type:

date -d mm/dd/yy

or

date --date=mm/dd/yy

where mm=month, dd=day and yy=year

To change the time on Linux from the console type:

date -s hh:mm:ss

or

date --set=hh:mm:ss

where hh=hour, mm=minute, ss=second


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it's easy work
Submitted by google (not registered) on Tue, 2010-07-27 18:45.

After google around, a more specific version is available here:

http://planet.admon.org/howto/set-timezone-date-and-time-in-linux/

It also helps me fix the time issues in a virtualized private server, enjoy :)

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hwclock
Submitted by Kamran Souratgar (not registered) on Sat, 2010-07-24 04:37.

After setting, sink your hardware time with this command:

 # hwclock -w

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Natural Language
Submitted by Marc Coxall (not registered) on Tue, 2010-07-20 08:19.

I like to use the natural language method

 date -s "July 20 2010 08:20"

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Re: Natural Language
Submitted by Anonymous (not registered) on Tue, 2010-07-20 15:57.

I use: date -u mmddhhmm (with the aid of an atomic watch), i.e. which sets the UTC time, and local time is resolved by locale (previously setup) as follows:

# setup local timezone
rm /etc/localtime
# setup for EDT and EST (+4 EDT; +5 EST)
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT /etc/localtime
# setup for only EST (+5 EST)
#ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST /etc/localtime
rm /etc/timezone
echo "US/Eastern" > /etc/timezone
export TZ="/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York"

 

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Re: Natural Language
Submitted by mike list (not registered) on Tue, 2010-07-20 14:40.

i prefer to use ntpd which sets your system relative to greenwich mean time.

 

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Re: Re: Natural Language
Submitted by thaygiaoth (not registered) on Thu, 2010-07-22 03:42.

I think setup command is easy to solve this problem

 install: yum install setup

 

 

 

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