Setting Date and Time

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where ''MM'' is the month, 01-12; ''DD'' is the day, 01-31; ''hhmm'' is the time, 0000-2359; ''YYYY'' is the optional year, and ''.ss'' is the optional seconds.
 
where ''MM'' is the month, 01-12; ''DD'' is the day, 01-31; ''hhmm'' is the time, 0000-2359; ''YYYY'' is the optional year, and ''.ss'' is the optional seconds.
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Finally, sync the hardware clock with the system time to make your change persist over reboots:
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hwclock --systohc
  
 
See also [[Timezone]] for changing the time zone.
 
See also [[Timezone]] for changing the time zone.

Revision as of 03:36, 15 July 2008

Setting date from the command prompt

To change the date on your Freerunner you have to give the command

date -s MMDDhhmm

or

date -s MMDDhhmmYYYY

or

date -s MMDDhhmmYYYY.ss

where MM is the month, 01-12; DD is the day, 01-31; hhmm is the time, 0000-2359; YYYY is the optional year, and .ss is the optional seconds.

Finally, sync the hardware clock with the system time to make your change persist over reboots:

hwclock --systohc

See also Timezone for changing the time zone.

Setting date from the command prompt

To change the date on your Freerunner you have to give the command

date -s MMDDhhmm

or

date -s MMDDhhmmYYYY

or

date -s MMDDhhmmYYYY.ss

where MM is the month, 01-12; DD is the day, 01-31; hhmm is the time, 0000-2359; YYYY is the optional year, and .ss is the optional seconds.

Finally, sync the hardware clock with the system time to make your change persist over reboots:

hwclock --systohc

See also Timezone for changing the time zone.