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Set system time in Solaris

Contributed by qmchenry

September 2, 2003

Tagged: Solaris

To set the time to 5:43:15 PM (17:43:15), run this command as superuser:

date 1743.15

To set the time to 9:05 AM:

date 0905

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Your command would be a bad idea on a production system. Much better to use the -a option like this:

date -a sss.fff

so that the system slowly changes time. When you do it abruptly, the way you indicated, time-dependent processes can get hammered.

Larry Sherwood

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