Date and Time

mairul · 12-21-2003, 06:37 AM

I am using Debian GNU LInux 3.0...

How can I set my date and time again from my console mode....

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david_ross · 12-21-2003, 08:40 AM

With the date command:
man date

Or to sync with a time server:
rdate -s time.nist.gov
or
ntpdate -s time.nist.gov

mairul · 12-23-2003, 01:36 PM

With the date command I am trying to set my date but failed...

I mean can you show me an example of how to set my date only..

say I am want to change my date from 24 to 25....

Thanks in advance....

jharris · 12-23-2003, 01:49 PM

Code:

date 12251950
hwclock -w

The first command set the date/time in the OS clock (12th month, 25th day, 19th hour, 50th minute). The second command stores the OS clock to the hardware clock. As already pointed out using man date would have told you all this.

HTH

Jamie...

david_ross · 12-23-2003, 01:54 PM

Or if you want to just add 1 day on you could use:
date --set="`date|cut -d' ' -f1-2` $((`date|cut -d' ' -f3`+1)) `date|cut -d' ' -f4-6`"

jharris · 12-23-2003, 01:57 PM

I'd of used a variable to store the output of date myself Dave but yeah, you could do it that nice, straight forward way

cheers

Jamie..

mairul · 12-23-2003, 10:39 PM

thanks....how can I view my date all the time at text mode...

I mean at my command prompt......

debian:/#[time]......here at time I want to view the current time .....

david_ross · 12-25-2003, 12:26 PM

Take a look at this thread:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=115354