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Changing system time

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 2:13 pm
by manderson2228
I am trying to change the system time using the system-config-date command and i am getting the error RunTimeError: could not open display

We are using CentOS

Re: Changing system time

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 2:55 pm
by agriffin
Is this a headless server or are you using a graphical environment on the system? (you need a graphical environment to run it)

Re: Changing system time

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 3:02 pm
by agriffin
And actually, while system-config-date is a useful utility, you don't need it to change the time. You can just edit the file /etc/sysconfig/clock to set the timezone, and use the date command to set the time:

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date -s "2012-09-06 15:02"