How to change the system date from the shell on FreeBSD?
The system date and time can be changed with the date command.
Set Date only
date YYMMDD
or
date YYYYMMDD
Set Date and Time
date YYMMDDHHMM
or
date YYYYMMDDHHMM
Set Time only
date HHMM
Example
So for example, if you want to set the date to Nov. 6, 2009 and the time to 8:58, you would use this command:
#
date 0911060858
See man date for more information.
