[ale] Setting the date/time

[Glenn C. Lasher Jr.]

Gary-

You might want to consider configuring your machine with the hardware
clock set to GMT.  Doing this will enable Linux to automagically switch
between xST and xDT.

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Byron A Jeff wrote:

> >
> > Ok, here is your laughter for today. What is the proper syntax for setting
> > the date and time? I've read the man pages, etc. and nothing seems to
> > work. We just switched to daylight savings time, and for some reason my
> > server didn't follow. I just realized it today. :< Anyway, the man page
> > says to issue a "date --set=MMDDhhmm" so, wouldn't that be something like
> > "date --set=04040808" for April 4 at 8:08am ?? I've tried adding the
> > century on the end, etc, nothing works. Why is setting the time so hard?
>
> The --set is unnecessary. Simply 'date MMDDhhmm' is sufficient.
> Usually I just run the netdate command pointing to a server with reliable time.
> rdate has similar funtionality.
>
> Lastly be aware that you'll probably need to reset the hardware clock for the
> machine so that the server will keep correct time if reset. Check out the
> 'clock' command for details.
>
> BAJ
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