CentOS change date.

[kan3]

Hello,

Can someone please help me in changing the date of OS?

This is the current date,

Tue Nov 22 04:14:00 EST 2011


I want to change the time to GMT +0 with daylight saving disabled.


Thank you.

 

[SeLLeRoNe]

did you try use ntp protocol?

yum install -y ntpdate
/usr/sbin/ntpdate -b time.ien.it

Change time.ien.it with your prefer ntp server if you want.

Did you set correct timezone? If not do:

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT0 /etc/localtime

Regards

 

[NoBaloney2]

The following works for me on CentOS, but your mileage may vary.

# cd /etc
# cp -p localtime localtime.orig
# cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC localtime

I'm not sure why there are multiple GMT files in /usr/share/zoneinfo; I'd use UTC because by definition it's more precise and by definition doesn't change for DST.

Interesting stuff here (wikipedia.org).

Jeff