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# 1  
Old 06-18-2007
change system date in solaris
dears

any one know how to change system date in solaris
# 2  
Old 06-18-2007
As root:

#date <date_you_want_to_change_to>
# 3  
Old 06-18-2007
or use ntp
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Old 06-18-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by porter
or use ntp
you use ntp to change the system date? or you use it to synchronize the time with an ntp server?
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Old 06-18-2007
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Originally Posted by ghostdog74
you use ntp to change the system date? or you use it to synchronize the time with an ntp server?
Sure, using NTP changes the system date, so porter is technically corrrect.
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Old 06-18-2007
Date on Solaris Machine
I think that you can use the command
date -u command or date -s command with the arguments.
Former takes the argumemt in format ddmmyyyyhhmm and latter a string that you get when you give date command on command prompt..this string goes in quotes as argument to date -s
Alternatively you can use ntpdate command to set date or synchronize the date with another machine.
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Old 06-19-2007
NTP is a good option for time syncronisation.
However, I guess for solaris if your system is way too behind (more than 14 mins I think) NTP will fail.
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