Setting date and Time on Redhat 2

[zum]

I need to set my date and time on Redhat. We don't have GUI running so I can't set it that way. Can some one give me an example of the format to use. I you could provide an example with setting today's date that would be great.

Thanks.

 

[sleipnir214]

From a shell prompt, perhaps

[tt]man date[/tt]

will help.



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[m4ilm4n]

What I do is set up a cron job that runs every morning at 2AM:

/usr/bin/rdate -s server && /sbin/hwclock -w

where server is the name of an NTP server (preferably second- or third-tier). This of course assumes you have rdate installed.

 

[QatQat]

Here is a quick one

date -s yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss

Cheers

QatQat

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[stevexff]

Seem to recall that if you want to set the date (rather than just query it) you need to be root.

Steve

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[zum]

Thanks for a the responses. I got it set.