Changing date without changing time.

[caesius]

As the title, can it be done, the date is one day behind, I want something like

date -v +1d

but I want it to actually adjust the date, not just echo it.

Cheers.

 

[dennylin93]

If you have access to the Internet, just use ntpdate():
# ntpdate -b 0.pool.ntp.org

 

[phoenix]

From the date(1) page:
# date 20100207

 

[caesius]

From the date(1) page:
# date 20100207

Thanks, but I already tried that

# date 20100208
date: illegal time format

(it's the 8th here..)

 

[DutchDaemon]

Set a full date/time then: [cmd=]date 201002081200.00[/cmd] (which is noon, Feb 8, adjust time as as needed)

 

[caesius]

Set a full date/time then: [cmd=]date 201002081200.00[/cmd] (which is noon, Feb 8, adjust time as as needed)

Thanks, yeah I was going to do that, but obviously the current time was pulled from somewhere quite accurate (I didn't set it) and I guess I was being a bit OCD having it off by a few seconds...

Thanks anyway

 

[DutchDaemon]

If you're running ntpd that will be corrected very quickly.