In Unix/Linux, the date command displays and set the current day, date, time, and year.
To check the current date and time, write date command on unix console
[root@localhost ~]# date
Thu Jun 16 09:03:22 CDT 2016
Set/Change Date and Time
You must be login as root to change date under UNIX.
Syntax to set date and time
date MMddhhmm[[cc]yy]
Where,
MM : Month (two-digit numeric month)
dd : Day (two-digit numeric day i.e. day of month)
hh : Hour
mm : Minutes (30)
cc : First two digits of the year (10)
yy : Last two digits of the year (2010).
To set date to Dec 15, 2012 9:00am
[root@localhost ~]# date 121509002012
