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Run "date" with an argument as root. See "man date". A small extract

     The command:

           date 8506131627

     sets the date to ``June 13, 1985, 4:27 PM''.

     The command:

           date 1432

     sets the time to 2:32 PM, without modifying the date.

If you have a portable that you sometimes connect in a network and
want to set the time to match theirs you can connect to a "time
server". I use

  % ntpdate erlang

because "erlang" runs "xntd".

/kgb