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Linux – setting the time

February 3rd, 2009 Daz Leave a comment Go to comments

How to set the time in Linux; (from a command line)

date -s “09/21/2007 09:20:00″

hwclock –systohc

the second command links the time back to the hardware clock.

Note: within a vm guest it is always advised to install the guest additions as the time on a guest can slowly move away from the correct time.

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