how to set linux date and time in commands Posted on Mar 24, 2018 by Weiwei Jia In QA how to set linux date and time in commands For example, to change date to 14 Nov 2017 11:57:00, the command would be, $ sudo date --set "14 Nov 2017 11:57:00" Tue Nov 14 11:57:00 HKT 2017 Read more: How to get date and time using date command from another timezone in Linux? How to convert seconds since the epoch to a date in Linux? How to Set Date, Time and Timezone in Linux How to convert epoch timestamp to human readable date format in Bash? Chrome reports “Adobe Flash Player was blocked because it is out of date.” How to search history commands very effectively in bash shell command line? How to Copy Output of Commands in a Linux Terminal to X Selection or Clipboard Manage Linux console screen by commands?