topic Re: how to set date and time in linux in Operating System - Linux

how to set date and time in linux

yogesh kumar_2 — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:30:24 GMT

hi

How to set date and time in linux.

Re: how to set date and time in linux

Sushil Srivastava — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:46:09 GMT

to check the Date
#date
Thu Sep 25 05:41:14 EDT 2008

to change the date
# date -s "Thu Sep 25 05:41:14 EDT 2008"
change the "" fields as per your requirment.

Let me know if it works or the date which you want to be set

Re: how to set date and time in linux

Robert-Jan Goossens — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:48:06 GMT

Hi,

You should post these questions in the Linux forum.

http://forums12.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/familyhome.do?familyId=118

http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/RH-Linux-Time.html

Robert-Jan

Re: how to set date and time in linux

yogesh kumar_2 — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:54:03 GMT

Thank you sushil

Re: how to set date and time in linux

Kapil Jha — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:46:00 GMT

Moderator please move this thread to linux.
Anyways you can set timezone correctly aslo as it may cause some time issue.
BR,
kapil+

Re: how to set date and time in linux

Suraj K Sankari — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:17:23 GMT

Hi,

from command line
to set the date to Sep 25 12:45 AM
#date 0925004508
here
09 is mon
25 is date
00 is hr.
45 in min.
08 is year

Suraj

Re: how to set date and time in linux

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:18:39 GMT

Shalom,

date command will do it. See the man page.

Also note that ntp is the way to make sure time and data are consistent through out your network.

SEP

Re: how to set date and time in linux

Dennis Handly — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:09:58 GMT

>kapil: Moderator please move this thread to linux.

Requests to move threads can be made by replying to a monthly thread like:
July-September 2008 Moderator Intervention thread
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1245248