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Date

date is a program to show and edit the date and time of a system. To change the hardware clock look at the according article

Display time and date

To change the time and date run the following command:

date

Change the date and time

To change the date run the following command with an adjusted value for the date:

date +%Y%m%d -s "20210809"

To change the time run the following command with an adjusted value for the date:

date +%T -s "18:49:42"

After that you can check if the time is correct by displaying it.

Set timezone

To set your timezone run the following command with the accordingly selected file for your location:

cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin /etc/localtime