Unable to change date and time settings in Ubuntu 16.04 using command line

Question

I have tried below commands to change date and time but these are not updating date and time.

sudo date --set="2015-09-30 10:05:59.990"
sudo date --set="Tue 30 May 2017 15:00:00"

sudo hwclock --systohc

Kindly provide valid commands for changing date and time

Solution

You can use timedatectl, it does all the necessary things for you itself.

First make sure NTP is not enabled:

sudo timedatectl set-ntp 0

then set the time:

sudo timedatectl set-time "2017-05-30 18:17:16"

make sure your timezone is correct too, e.g:

sudo timedatectl set-timezone Europe/Paris

and also use UTC if you are using localtime:

sudo timedatectl set-local-rtc 0

Comments

[Ryan Arief]

the sudo timedatectl set-ntp 0 helps me