Re: [Help-bash] set time

[Greg Wooledge]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 02:59:02PM -0400, DJ Mills wrote:
> If I'm understanding the question correctly, GNU date may do what
> you're asking...
> date -s '2 hours 30 minutes'

Oh... is that what he wanted?  To set the system clock forward 2.5 hours
without regard to how accurate it currently is?

All of my Unix-like systems run NTP.  I can't think of any reason not
to run it, unless the system has no network connectivity at all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_time_protocol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTP_pool