How to Manually Set a System's Date and Time

1. Become an administrator.

   See Using Your Assigned Administrative Rights in Securing Users and Processes in Oracle Solaris 11.2 .

2. Provide the new date and time.

   $ date mmddHHMM[[cc]yy]

   mm

   Month, using two digits

   dd

   Day of the month, using two digits

   HH

   Hour, using two digits and a 24-hour clock

   MM

   Minutes, using two digits

   cc

   Century, using two digits

   yy

   Year, using two digits

   See the date(1) man page for more information.

3. Verify that you have reset your system's date correctly by using the date command with no options.

Example 1-8  Manually Setting a System's Date and Time

The following example shows how to use the date command to manually set a system's date and time.

# date
Monday, September 13. 2010 02:00:16 PM MDT
# date 0921173404
Thu Sep 17:34:34 MST 2010