How to set your server's date and time (system clock)
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posted by 2Guns
To learn the current date and time of your server. Login through ssh or
telnet to the server and type;
date
To set the system clock under Linux, use the date command. As an example,
to set the current time and date to July 10, 11:16 PM, type;
date 07102316 (note that the time is given in 24 hour notation)
If you wanted to change the year as well, you could type;
date 071023162004
To set the seconds as well, type;
date 07312316.30 or date 073123162004.30