How do I change the system date on an HP-UX operating system?

[Chris Wroblewski]

How do I change the system date on an HP-UX operating system?

[Ken Hubnik_2]

date mmddhhmm
date 12060914

[Stefan Farrelly]

date

in format mmddhhmm[cc]yy

you should shutdown to single user mode first (init s) then change date, then reboot, to ensure all system processes pick up the new date correctly.

[Patrick Wallek]

Try the 'date' command.

# man date

for more information.

# date 120609152002

Will change the date on the system to 09:15 Dec. 6, 2002.

[V. Nyga]

Hi,

date mmddhhmm(yy) that's it.

You can check the command with man date.

It is month-day-hour-minute(year not needed)

Regards
Volkmar

[Jean-Louis Phelix]

hi,

You already got solutions, but changing system date can disturb some applications. If you want to do it anyway without rebooting the system and if your change is not too big, you can use '-a' option of date to slowly adjust system date. See man date.

To slowly go 15 mn earlier use :

date -a -900 (15 * 60)

To slowly go 10 mn later use :

date -a 600 (10 * 60)

Regards.

[Bob Milton]

I cronjob /usr/sbin/ntpdate IP of router time synced to GMT. Keeps some of my older servers on time.

[Nick Tarmey_3]

Hi, you could also use set_parms like so:

set_parms date

g'luck!
Nick

[lanke_1]

Hi,

As it is already said above

try man on date and adjust
the date accordingly.

The date format is: mmddhhmmyy

mm - month 0-12
dd - day 0-31
hh - hour 0-12
mm - minute 0-60
yy - year 0-12

Example:
Set date to Dec 1st 4.00PM

#date 1201160002
date: do you really want to run time backwards?[yes/no]y
Only "yes" will make it take!


Thanks,
Lanke

[lanke_1]

There is a typo

yy - year 0-9999

[Michael Tully]

If your running any sort of database, do not change the date whilst these instances are up. You can cause all sort of problems. If you must change the date, at the very minimum, shutdown all your databases. The best way would to be in single user mode as suggested or do it during your next reboot. For the future you might want to look into implementing NTP. There are stacks of posts about this.