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Change the Date in Solaris

This morning i've noticed the one of our ERP servers' time setting dan date, Sat 29 2012. which is tomorrow.

I'll show you how to change the date and time on Oracle Solaris 10. Just a light "how to" to refresh our memory, especially mine. hehehe


  • In the terminal window, type "su -" to change to the root user.

    Root is the administrator account on a Sun Solaris system as well as almost every other Unix system. Unlike regular user accounts, the root account has the ability to alter the configuration of a system such as changing the date and time.


  • Type "date MMddhhmmyyyy" which changes the system date and time.

    The format of the command after the word date is month (MM), day (dd), hour (hh), minute (mm) and year (yyyy). Each part is two digits long except for the year field, which is four digits long.

    In my case, type "date 092809412012" on the command line to change the date and time to September 28, 2012 9:41 a.m.


  • Type "date" in the command line again to verify that the system date and time has been updated correctly.

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