Geoff Hankerson

I had a lot of trouble setting my Ubuntu server's system clock. date, ntpdate, and the ntp severver daemon will are failing to set the date/time. Apparently if you are running linux with 2.6.18 kernel you need to detach from the host's clocksource with:

How do you tell what version of the kernel you are running? :

uname will output thew kernel version. If its 2.6.18.x, then run the echo command above.

Then you can simply user the date command to set the date/time.

or use ntpdate