What is the command to run in order to set the date and time on an ESX 3.0.1 box?
Setting Time & Date
o Login to service console
o Type date s yyyymmdd
o Type date s hh:mm
You can set it with the command: date
If you want your ESX server to sync up time with an external NTP server, you can follow this KB article
Setting Time & Date
o Login to service console
o Type date s yyyymmdd
o Type date s hh:mm