How to set your server's date and time (system clock)

To learn the current date and time of your server. Login through ssh or telnet to the server and type;



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;



If you wanted to change the year as well, you could type;



To set the seconds as well, type;