Time/Date configuration - n00b here :)

Rain Designs · Last edited by Rain Designs on Thu Jul 04, 2002 3:46 pm; edited 1 time in total

Well I have crontab set up and running, but the time and date of my server are WAY off. I know how to change the time and date in KDE or GNOME, but I'm not sure how to do it in CLI through SSH. Does anyone know the command to edit time/date?

Thanks

-Rain

I don't really need the time and date to be changed, but it would save me some time.

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ZagiFlyer · Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 6:02 pm Post subject:

First make sure you are using your local time and not GMT (unless you are using GMT on purpose):
(from the installation HOW-TO http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/build.xml#doc_chap13:
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/path/to/timezonefile /etc/localtime

If the link is correct, double-check the time in your BIOS.
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20488

'man date' should tell you what you need.
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Sesquipedalian · n00b Joined: 22 May 2002 Posts: 62 Location: Loveland, CO

the 'date' command should do it:

date MMDDHHMM

Naan Yaar · Bodhisattva Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 1549

Also, look into the ntp package. It will keep you nicely synchronized with a time server.

Rain Designs · Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2002 6:02 pm Post subject:

awesome! I love this forum! You guys respond so fast!

Thanks a lot!

-Rain
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