How to manually set the date and time on an RSA Identity Governance & Lifecycle hardware appliance
Originally Published: 2014-10-21
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Set the timezone (if other than the default EST)
- Navigate to /usr/share/zoneinfo.
- Find your timezone.
- Backup the original timezone file.
cp /etc/localtime /etc/localtime.old
- Copy the new timezone
cp <newtimezone> /etc/localtime
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Set date and time:
date -s "30 APR 2009 14:03:00"
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Sync the BIOS hardware clock
hwclock -w
To synchronize the appliance to a corporate timeserver or an NTP server, please see the following RSA Knowledge Base Articles:
- 000028863 _- KB-1409 - System Clock Time Synchronization with a Corporate Time Server
- 000033603 -- How to troubleshoot a time drive/NTP server that is not updating time
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