“date” is the command used to manupulate the date and time of a linux system.
-s option used along with date command can be used to change the date and time
[root@nagios1 ~]# date
Sat May 10 11:17:41 IST 2014
Copy the above date output and modify to the date and time that needs to be set and use along with the “-s” option with date command as below change the date.
[root@nagios1 ~]# date -s “Thu May 15 19:02:14 IST 2014”
Thu May 15 19:02:14 IST 2014
[root@nagios1 ~]# date
Thu May 15 19:02:16 IST 2014