Tuesday, June 7

Set system date in Linux Red Hat
Red Hat Version
[root@linux1 ~]# cat /etc/*release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.6 (Tikanga)
[root@linux1 ~]#

Type the following hwclock command to read the Hardware Clock and display the time on screen:
# hwclock -r
Sun 29 May 2016 05:11:48 PM EDT  -0.017419 seconds
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OR
# hwclock --show
Sun 29 May 2016 05:12:01 PM EDT  -0.016364 seconds
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OR
# hwclock --show --utc
Sun 29 May 2016 05:12:17 PM EDT  -0.016073 seconds
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Verify current date
[root@linux1 ~]# date
Thu May 26 17:17:27 EDT 2016
[root@linux1 ~]#


Set new Date
[root@linux1 ~]# date -s "26 May 2016 21:18:10"
Thu May 26 21:18:10 EDT 2016
[root@linux1 ~]#

Verification
[root@linux1 ~]# date
Thu May 26 21:18:11 EDT 2016
[root@linux1 ~]#