Setting The Date
The XSI extension to the SUS specifies that the date command can also be used to set the date. The new date is specified as an option to date in the format MMddhhmmyy], where MM specifies the two-digit numeric month, dd specifies the two-digit numeric day, hh specifies the two-digit numeric hour, mm specifies the two-digit numeric minutes. Optionally cc specifies the first two digits of the year, and yy specifies the last two digits of the year.
The date command from GNU Coreutils (often used on Linux) allows another method with a different format, for example to set the date and time to September 8, 2004 01:22:
date --set="20040908 01:22"Read more about this topic: Date (Unix)
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