Changing date

[activeco]

Occasionaly, I need to change system date back and forth.
Of course date -s doesn't work . AFAIK using zic and timezones > /etc/localtime could help up to (almost) 24 hours, but dates are out of range.
Is there any way to change date on a VPS?

[Rob]

what control panel are you using?

If cPanel it can be changed by going into Server Time in the Server Configuration section.

[activeco]

No control panel Rob.
Just plain old ssh.

[Smithjp]

You cannot change system time in a VPS because all VPSs on the hardware node have the same system time. However, it is possible to change the default system timezone inside a VPS, for example, by replacing /etc/localtime with the file from /usr/share/zoneinfo which contains a description of your timezone.

It may be the similar case with date too.

[activeco]

It may be the similar case with date too.

Thanks Smith.
I have no idea how to do it.

According to zic:
Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S

So I made 'customtime' file with the following:
Rule CT 1981 2030 - Jan 27 0:01 -77:00 D

Unfortunatelly 'SAVE' does not accept anything above (-)24:00, in this case -77:00:
# zic customtime
"customtime", line 1: invalid saved time

[activeco]

JPC_Smith,

Could you enable anything like "Time Drift" like some Xen versions can:
http://bliki.rimuhosting.com/exec/di...2&newVersion=3

[activeco]

Actually the xen code is against "time drift" (my bad wording) and it goes something like this:

set independent_wallclock
echo 1 > /proc/sys/xen/independent_wallclock

Is there really no way to do it here?

[JPC-Masood]

I do not think virtuozzo supports that. Its a different technology.