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.

Personal tools

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.