[plug] Changing time on Debian

[Matt Kemner]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Andrew  Barbara wrote:

> i have never had to do this befour but how do you change the time on debian?? 

Something like:

date -s "13 Jun 01 11:51:30"

will do the job
then "hwclock --systohc" to save that to the on-board clock

Alternatively point "rdate" or "ntpdate" at a server that has the correct
time and supports one of those protocols.

 - Matt