edit date on server
 

I have a server with the time way off. Can I edit the time with root access?

edit: typo

yes

man date

Thanks

pleasure!

btw: if you add this to your /etc/rc.conf

ntpdate_enable="YES"
xntpd_enable="YES"

and also add this file /etc/ntp.conf with the following contents:

server our.public-ntp.server
driftfile /var/db/ntp.drift



-> get some public ntp servers here:http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.html



... if you do all the above, your server will sync after the next reboot ...

Ok, I apologize I am a little confused by your last post. If I do this to my server what exactly does it do? Does this make the date perfect?

uname -a

paste the output.

format c:?