In this article we will show you how to set the time, date and timezone within CentOS. Though I’m sure this method will remain the same through the various Linux distributions.
Steps
- Set the time zone
- Set the time and date
- Sync the hwclock with the current time and date
Commands
Below are the commands that are required. For the date command this will set the time and date to 25th July 22:17. The syntax is `date MMDDhhmmYYYY`.
rm /etc/localtime ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT /etc/localtime date 072522172010 hwclock --systohc
Confirm Settings
To confirm your machine is set with the right time and date run the following commands :
[root@server ~]# date Sun Jul 25 22:38:47 GMT 2010
[root@server ~]# hwclock
Sun 25 Jul 2010 10:38:51 PM GMT -0.125883 seconds
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