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June 27, 2006

Setting Date/Time on Linux

Note to self . . .

Every now and then I need to adjust the time on a Linux box and I always have to look at the man page or dig around online to remember.

To set the date/time to June 27th, 4:04pm:

sudo date 06271604

To make sure that setting sticks in the hardware:

sudo /sbin/hwclock --systohc

Posted by mike at June 27, 2006 4:10 PM

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Hi

I personally use rdate to keep the system date up to date and run it through a cron every 15 minutes

http://freshmeat.net/projects/rdate/

Along with rdate, I run hwdate every day at midnight

Posted by: seb at July 8, 2006 7:18 AM

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