date --set has fixed the time

lashae · 12-29-2008, 02:13 PM

I tried to set date with;

Code:

date --set="21:54:00 2008-12-29"

and now time is stopped on that moment, cute? :-)

Code:

mug:/# date -u; sleep 10; date -u
Mon Dec 29 21:54:00 UTC 2008
Mon Dec 29 21:54:00 UTC 2008
mug:/#

What to do now? Any help would be appreciated.

pixellany · 12-29-2008, 02:34 PM

Welcome to LQ!!

I cannot duplicate this. Try re-issuing the same command with different parameters---see if it changes correctly.

Try hwclock -r to see what the hardware clock is doing.

hwclock -w to set the hardware clock to system time (what date reports)

hwclock -s to set the system time from the HW clock

And finally, the ever-popular re-boot (See what re-booting does)

lashae · 12-30-2008, 09:23 AM

Rebooting shifted the date to its initial value; 15-12-2028 balblabla...
I ran "hwclock -s", the date is fixed (corrected).
Then, date --set="17:18:00" and hour is also fixed. And finally ran "hwclock -w" and fixed the hardware clock as well.

Thank you very much.