Articles: Changing the date in Linux

Posted by: david on 11/10/2002 - 08:48 PM
To change the date in Linux, use the date command, which has the following syntax:

date MMDDHHmmYYYY

e.g.

[root@scooter logs]# date 111017482002
Sun Nov 10 17:48:00 PST 2002

Then you should run "hwclock", which synchronizes the hardware clock with the OS clock- just type the following:

hwclock --set --date="date '+%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S'"