Setting system clock and date (original) (raw)

Friday, July 20, 2007

Setting system clock and date

To set system clock and date using command, date command can be used.
This is how to do it:

-> date mmddttttyyyy.ss where;
mm - month
dd - day``
tttt - time in hours and minutes
yyyy - year
ss - seconds

For example, to set the current date to 17 July 2007, 11:15 a.m., this command below can be used:

-> date 071711152007

To see the current date, the date command without argument can be used.

-> date