LKBEN11026: Howto set the time under linux from the command line

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Author: Wim Peeters - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG

Symptom

You need to set the time

Cause

none

Solution

You can use the command date to set the time.

To set the time to 22:20 you can use the following command:

date -s "22:20"

If you get the following message "date: cannot set date: Operation not permitted" then you do not have enough permissions to set the time. Login as root or use su or sudo to execute the command.

date -s "22:20"
Wed Jun 18 22:20:00 CEST 2008

 

 

About the Author

Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.

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