Date and time on FreeBSD

Just a reminder for myself for the syntax to set the date and time on my FreeBSD systems.

date yymmddhhmmss

Where:

• yy : Year in two digit
• mm : Month (1-12)
• dd : Day (1-31)
• hh : Hours (0..23)
• mm : Minutes (0..59)
• ss : Seconds (0..61)

Or you can just set the time like this:

date 2130

i.e. 9:30 pm

Written on 14 Sep 2009 and categorised in FreeBSD, tagged as time and date

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