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lucheman
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Setting the Date/Time

What is the command to run in order to set the date and time on an ESX 3.0.1 box?

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esiebert7625
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Setting Time & Date

o Login to service console

o Type “date –s yyyymmdd”

o Type “date –s hh:mm”

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Dave_Mishchenko
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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

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1339&slice... 0 10581723

esiebert7625
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Setting Time & Date

o Login to service console

o Type “date –s yyyymmdd”

o Type “date –s hh:mm”

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