Set Date with SSH

Wednesday, 12. May 2010

If ntpdate isn’t feasible, and you need only a few seconds worth of accuracy, this one-liner can set the date over the network with ssh. 

ssh root@$HOST "date `date +%m%d%H%M%y.%S`"
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Posted in One-Liners by Dan Farrell

One Response to “Set Date with SSH”

  1. June 17th, 2011 at 8:08 am

    Tom Says:

    Make sure you have a ssh keypair so you don’t have to enter your password, else the timing will be off by a few seconds

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